What is Jalapeno?
Jalapeno is basically a watchdog which observes a directory, monitores changes in the observed directory (as example, new file, file changes, file is removed) and forwards those changes to a destination directory.
As I'm often working with a designer, who shares me the assets of our apps in a Dropbox folder, I observe this folder and copy every change to my app's directory. With this method I can be sure that I always use the latest assets he pushed into the Dropbox folder.
Actually I've no idea why I used node.js to build it, but I think I just wanted to try something new.
How to use Jalapeno?
- As Jalapeno is using Node.js as his base you have to install it first.
- Install watch by Mikael Rogers which does the whole watchdog operations, just type
nmp install watch - Simple execute
node jalapeno.js <absolute_path_to_observe> <absolute_path_to_dest_directory> - Follow Georg Kitz on Twitter.
What's next?
As jalapeno only supports files in a root folder and don't support folder hierachies at the moment, it's the logical next step to implement it.
Other things which will show up sooner or later:
- Launch on startup.
- Support for multiple folders to observe and multiple destination folders.GK
- Any idea you come up with.
License
Jalapeno is under MIT.