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chokidar-cmd

⚠️ This package is deprecated! After releasing this package another one called chokidar-cli was made for the same purpose. chokidar-cli is now way more popular than this so I don't see much sense in maintaining this. Please migrate to chokidar-cli.

Command-line wrapper for Chokidar. Run shell command when file or file's in a directory are changed.

Installation

Install globally npm install -g chokidar-cmd or as a project dependency npm install chokidar-cmd.

CLI usage

Usage: chokidar-cmd -c "command" -t file-or-dir-or-glob

Commands:
  chokidar-cmd  Watch directory or file for changes and run given command

Options:
  --command, -c  Command to run on file changes              [string] [required]
  --target, -t   Target file path, directory and its contents or glob pattern to
                 watch. You can provide several targets using several target
                 flags.                                       [array] [required]
  --verbose, -v  Show verbose output                                   [boolean]
  --quiet, -q    Silence normal output from chokidar-cmd               [boolean]
  --initial      Run command immediately after initial scan (when chokidar is
                 ready)                                                [boolean]
  --all          Run command on all file events and not just on changes[boolean]
  --help, -h     Show help                                             [boolean]
  --version      Show version number                                   [boolean]

Examples:
  chokidar-cmd -c "npm run less" -t src/    Run less build on changes to styles
  chokidar-cmd -c "npm run less" -t src/    Run less build on changes to either
  -t vendor/                                styles directory

npm run usage

Use it directly from your package.json for watching without task runners and without installing globally!

{
    "devDependencies": {
        "chokidar-cmd": "^1.0.0"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "less": "lessc src/styles.less public/styles.css",
        "watch:less": "chokidar-cmd -c \"npm run less\" -t src/styles.less"
    }
}