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

Install

npm install -g 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 'less/style.less'
{{fileext}}  # file extension '.less'
{{path}}     # path of file   'less'
{{filename}} # name of file   'style'

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