juggle

juggle is a command line utility that sits and watches files and takes action on changes.

describe what you want watched and what you want to do in the manifest.json

Videos

Introduction

Complex Scenario

Install

npm install -g cli-juggle

Example manifest.json

{
  "watch":[
    {
      "who":{
        "path":"./less",
        "regex":"\\.less$"
      },
      "action":{
        "cmds":[
          {
            "name":"LESS => CSS",
            "cmd": "lessc",
            "args":[
              "{{fullfile}}", 
              "css/{{filename}}.css"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Usage

aclark >> juggle manifest.json

Replacement Variables

{{fullfile}}          # full file name 'home/less/style.less'
{{fileext}}           # file extension '.less'
{{path}}              # path of file   'home/less'
{{filename}}          # name of file   'style'
{{pathindex path 0}}  # name of index 0 in path 'home'

Example

#Terminal Window 1
ls example
juggle manifest.json

#Terminal Window 2
ls example
touch ./less/style.less

Limitations

• As of 0.1.0 this will not work on Windows due to limitations in the syncExec package.
• On OSX you will need Xcode installed.

Todo

• tie in growl/notification support
• more tests
• better example
• add commands to juggle to create manifests