start-watch

Watch task for Start.

Install

npm install --save-dev start-watch
# or 
yarn add --dev start-watch

Usage

import Start from 'start';
import reporter from 'start-pretty-reporter';
import files from 'start-files';
import clean from 'start-clean';
import watch from 'start-watch';
import read from 'start-read';
import babel from 'start-babel';
import write from 'start-write';
import mocha from 'start-mocha';
import inputConnector from 'start-input-connector';
 
cosnt start = Start(reporter());
 
export const dev = () => start(
  files('build/'),
  clean(),
  watch('lib/**/*.js')((changedFiles) => start(
    inputConnector(changedFiles),
    read(),
    babel(),
    write('build/')
  ))
);

See documentation for details.

👉 Note that this task may not work properly with tasks like start-webpack and start-karma which have their own file watching functionality.

Arguments

watch(files, events, options)(callback)

• files – Chokidar "file, dir, glob, or array"
• events – Chokidar events array, [ 'change', 'add' ] by default
• options – Chokidar options, { persistent: true } by default
• callback(changedFiles) – callback function which will be called with an array of matched and changed files