irspy

I R Spy is a small nodejs app that lets you do tasks when files change, like, compile less files for you.

Example

Start up example.js:

$ node example.js
# or 
$ ./example.js
 
irspy 0.0.1
  --auto, -a         : Watch for changes in less files, recompiles main
  --now, -n          : Do not keep running, instead - compile now and quit
  --no-compress, -nc : Disable compression settings for less output, enabled by default, eg. --no-compress to disable

The file can look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env node
'use strict';
 
// run this file. if there's a .irspy json in the current folder, it will prefer it to local options
var fs = require('fs'),
    irspy = require('lib/irspy');
 
// example use case
var config = fs.existsSync('.irspy') ? JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('.irspy', 'utf-8')) : false;
 
// defaults or read config
config ? new irspy(config) : new irspy();

Modify any dist/less/ files. Only dist/app.less gets compiled. Tadaa!

Adding multiple tasks and locations

Hack around irspy.js. runNow and watches arrays can contain multiple directories and strategies.

a .irspy you could use (JSON):

{
    "compress": true,

    "paths": {
        "src": "dist/less",
        "out": "dist/css",
        "lessMain": "app.less",
        "cssMain": "app-min.css"
    },

    "notify": {
        "enabled": true
    }
}

This is not really release ready but works well enough