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