mkitt/watchn

Intelligently auto execute tasks on file/directory changes

watchn's Issues

Feature request: Use .watchn file in current directory by default.

There is no need to make the user add the .watchn after the command watchn .watchn. It could be detected that one is present in the current working directory and used by default.

Not monitoring directories for me

I was very excited to see this project. I setup a quick example and out of the box it isn't working for me when I monitor directories. If I watch a file then it works fine but the callback is not being fired when I watch directories.

Here is my quick example:

var cp = require('child_process');

module.exports.init = function(watchn) {

// watchn.watch('build', ['./modules/js/AlertGrid.js'], function(options) { <--- this works fine
watchn.watch('build', ['./modules/js/'], function(options) {

console.log(options);      // <------ doesn't execute when watching the directory

// File has changed
if (options.curr > options.prev) {

    console.log('');
    console.log('--------------------------------------');
    console.log('CHANGE DETECTED');
    console.log('--------------------------------------');
    console.log('');

    cp.exec('./build.sh -c', function(error, stdout, stderr) {

        if (error !== null) {
            console.log(stderr);
        } else {
            console.log(stdout);
        }
    })
}

})

}

Not working on jasmine-node or jasmine-dom

This could be because of async calls within these libraries. Thought this was built in, but need to write some test cases to find out for sure.

Occasional random crashing

Occasionally watchn crashes when a task fails. It generally happens when editing a .scss file and that file contains errors when it is saved, but not always. It's rare and pure randomness. I've gone a few days without shutting watchn down and never see it. Not sure what the work around is since there doesn't seem to be a pattern related to it. For now, watchn should output a message or growl something to the user that its left the building