gaze a globbing fs.watch wrapper written byKyle Robinson Youngand built from the best parts of other fine watch libs. Compatible with Node.js0.10/0.8, Windows, OSX and Linux. There’s apretty long list of other great modulesthat are built on top of gaze.
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var gaze = require('gaze');// Watch all .js files/dirs in process.cwd()gaze('**/*.js', function(err, watcher) { // Files have all started watching // watcher === this // Get all watched files console.log(this.watched()); // On file changed this.on('changed', function(filepath) { console.log(filepath + ' was changed'); }); // On file added this.on('added', function(filepath) { console.log(filepath + ' was added'); }); // On file deleted this.on('deleted', function(filepath) { console.log(filepath + ' was deleted'); }); // On changed/added/deleted this.on('all', function(event, filepath) { console.log(filepath + ' was ' + event); }); // Get watched files with relative paths console.log(this.relative());});// Also accepts an array of patternsgaze(['stylesheets/*.css', 'images/**/*.png'], function() { // Add more patterns later to be watched this.add(['js/*.js']);}); |
I’ve been getting my feet wet with gulp.js and specificallygulp-watch plugin which helps you process only the files that were changed. This helps tospeed up asset building quite a bit.Are you using any file watchers in your project?
