I'm finding it challenging to do live testing when doing development because as soon as you reboot (or if the system crashes), you lose all your changes. 

 

Right now I have set up a local repo on my computer that I edit and then have a build task that pushes (scp) the files to my unraid server. That way on reboot I can repush the files back. It works but is rather cludgy.

 

Alternatively I can open the files directly from the unraid server using VS Code's SSH capability. But then if I reboot I will lose all my changes. 

 

I was thinking it would be cool if there was a feature where upon shutdown changed files in certain folders are copied to the flash and then the Go script copies them back on power up? Would be an easy-ish script/plugin I think.

 

That still doesn't help if the system crashes. 

 

So I was wondering how others are doing it? Maybe I am overcomplicating this?

I think the normal approach is to put the master files somewhere persistent and then have a script to copy files into position for testing.  I personally use Dropbox as that means I can edit on my Windows system with the files automatically synced to the UnRaid server and then I have a terminal session active on Unraid to copy files to their runtime position.   I think others do something similar simply keeping the master files on the flash drive.

Humm. I see. I wonder if I could use Syncthings for this. That is how I sync files between my computers. If I can setup a one way sync between files on my server and my computer then that could do it too.