Mojo::S...Backend(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend(3) — the Morbo backend base class, bestie. That's the whole name vibe.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Like, if you're making your own backend, it looks a little something like this:

package Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend::Inotify:
use Mojo::Base 'Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend';

sub modified_files {...}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend is an abstract base class for Morbo backends, like Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend::Poll. It's giving "build your own backend" energy, no cap. 💅

💅 ATTRIBUTES 💅

Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend implements the following attributes. Lowkey important.

👀 watch 👀

my $watch = $backend->watch;
$backend  = $backend->watch(['/home/sri/my_app']);

Files and directories to watch for changes, defaults to the application script as well as the lib and templates directories in the current working directory. Cute. 🎀

⏱️ watch_timeout ⏱️

my $timeout = $backend->watch_timeout;
$backend    = $backend->watch_timeout(10);

Maximum amount of time in seconds a backend may block when waiting for files to change, defaults to the value of the MOJO_MORBO_TIMEOUT environment variable or 1. So there's a cap on the blocking, iykyk. ✨

🌸 METHODS 🌸

Mojo::Server::Morbo::Backend inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.

🧚 modified_files 🧚

my $files = $backend->modified_files;

Check if files from watch have been modified since the last check and return an array reference with the results. Meant to be overloaded in a subclass — that's the assignment, bestie. 🫶

Example vibes:

# All files that have been modified
say for @{$backend->modified_files};

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Mojolicious
• Mojolicious::Guides
• <https://mojolicious.org>

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