gazer-color

A Gazer fork capable of color output

Watch some files, do a thing

A simple wrapper for Shama's gaze module that performs an arbitrary command when files change. Like watchify, but for everything.

Installation

$ npm install --save-dev gazer-color
# or
$ npm install -g gazer-color

Usage

$ gazer-color --pattern README.md -- echo blorp
# note the -- between the gazer-color arguments like --patern and the command and its arguments

[README.md changes]

> blorp

Multiple patterns

gaze accepts an array of patterns, so do gazer-color.

gaze(['**/*.js', '!node_modules/**/*'], function() {
  console.log('blorp');
});

$ gazer-color --pattern "**/*.js" --pattern "!node_modules/**/*" -- echo blorp

[index.js changes]

> blorp

Arbitrary watch tasks with npm run

If you haven't read substack's post describing lightweight build steps with npm run, I'll give you a moment to get up to speed.

Here's how you might use gazer-color to run a build task every time a file changes:

{
  "scripts": {
    "test": "mocha",
    "watch-test": "gazer-color -p \"public/less/**/*.less\" -- npm run test"
  }
}

And then start the watcher:

$ npm run watch-less