# air-verse/air

☁️ Live reload for Go apps

Repository: https://github.com/air-verse/air
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/air
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: tools, go, live-reload, gin, watcher, task-runner, docker, file-watcher
Last push: 2026-08-01T14:40:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3247, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": 32, "gap_med": 4.0, "n_releases_24m": 35}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 23923, forks 925 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:35.461593+00:00)

## What it is
Air is a live-reloading command line utility for developing Go applications that watches files and automatically rebuilds and restarts the app. It is a development-time tool only and is not intended for production hot-deploy.

## Use cases
- auto rebuild and restart go server on file save
- live reload for go web apps during development
- watch go files and rerun binary
- speed up go development loop
- browser auto reload for go backend
- run go app in docker with hot reload

## When to choose
- you develop Go web services or CLIs and want instant rebuild/restart on save
- you want configurable watch rules, env files, and Docker support for a Go dev loop

## When to avoid
- you need production hot-deploy or zero-downtime restarts
- your project is not written in Go

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, cli, build-tool
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, backend
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: live-reload, file-watcher, hot-reload, go-development, task-runner, gin, command-line, docker, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- air-verse/air (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:35.461593+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:18.920848+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/air-verse/air (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:35.461593+00:00, sha ab5ef5ea28a4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.