Watcherless#
Unsatisfied with the less file watchers on NPM, I've created watcherless to be a more reliable solution. Watcherless uses chokidar as the library for file watching which has better reliability than fs.watch or stalker.
When I started this project, there wasn't already one on NPM with the name "watchless", so I had to alter - hence the different name repo
Install##
npm install -g watcherless # to install global, include -gUsage##
Command Line###
Usage: watcherless [options] <source> <destination> <source> = The source directory or less file to compile <destination> = The destination directory for the compiled CSS OPTIONS -e, --extension = The extension for the compiled CSS file, .min is prefixed if compression is enabled -c, --compress = Enable compress on compiled CSS -h, --help = This menu In a typical watcher solution for package.json:
... { "scripts": { "watch-js": "watchify app/js/script.js -o app/static/bundle.min.js", "watch-less": "watcherless -c app/less app/css", "watch": "npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less" } }... npm run watchNode.js###
var watcherless = require("watcherless"); var options = { source: "app/less/test.less", destination: "app/css", compress: true }; var watcher = watcherless(options); // When source and destination are supplied in the options, watch starts automatically var watcherless = require("watcherless"); var options = { compress: true }; var watcher = watcherless(options); watcher.watch("app/less", "app/css"); // The watcher can be started by calling watch. If the source or destination aren't supplied, they are pulled from the options watcher.stop(); // Stop watching files