A small command-line app that watches for file changes and triggers a live-reload on file save. Watches the current working directory for js, html, css extensions, ignoring .git folder, node modules and bower components.
npm install wtch -g
#start watching ..
wtch
Particularly useful alongside tools like wzrd.
wzrd index.js | wtch
With options, and using garnish for pretty-printing.
wzrd test/index.js | wtch --dir test -e js,css,es6 | garnish
PRs/suggestions welcome.
Usage:
wtch [opts]
Options:
--dir -d current working directory to watch (defaults to cwd)
--extension -e specifies an extension or a comma-separated list (default js,css,html)
--port -p the port to run livereload (defaults to 35729)
wtch(glob, [opt, cb])Returns a through stream that watches the glob (or array of globs) with the given options and an optional callback.
Options:
cwd the current working directory for gazeevent the type of event for gaze, such as "all" or "changed" (defaults to changed)port the port for livereload, defaults to 35729MIT, see LICENSE.md for details.
FAQs
small livereload/watch command line utility
The npm package wtch receives a total of 18 weekly downloads. As such, wtch popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that wtch demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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