rerun-watcher

Create a rerun watcher using chokidar

Install

npm i rerun-watcher

Usage

import spawn from 'cross-spawn'
import { createRerunWatcher } from 'rerun-watcher'

const watcher = await createRerunWatcher(
  ['src/**/*.js', 'src/**/*.jsx'],
  () => {
    return spawn('node', ['src/main.js'], {
      stdio: [
        'inherit', // stdin
        'inherit', // stdout
        'inherit', // stderr
      ]
    })
  }
)

Change any file in src directory, the src/main.js will be rerun.

13:40:01 change in ./src/config.js Rerunning...

You can configure your application name and ignore files:

const watcher = await createRerunWatcher(
  ['src/**/*.js', 'src/**/*.jsx'],
  () => {
    // ...
  },
  {
    name: 'MyApp',
    ignored: [
      'src/**/*.test.js'
    ],
    // ...any other chokidar options
  }
)

13:40:01 [MyApp] change in ./src/config.js Rerunning...

License

MIT License © Hairyf