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canjs / bit-docs-html-canjs

The plugins to produce CanJS.com
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Feature request: Watch/Auto reload task #214

Open miketlawrence opened 7 years ago

miketlawrence commented 7 years ago

A watch/reload task would be great when editing .mustache .less or .js files. That way there wouldn't be a need to re-run $ npm start to see changes.

justinbmeyer commented 7 years ago

DocumentJS had this, I haven't implemented it for bit-docs yet. I don't re-run npm start to see changes however, I just keep a web-server running.

miketlawrence commented 7 years ago

Well I had http-server running, but I wasn't seeing the changes from the .mustache templates reflected in the .html files when I reloaded the page. When I re-ran npm start I saw the .html regenerate with my changes.

Am I missing something that kept the changes from showing before I re-ran npm-start?

justinbmeyer commented 7 years ago

Ah, didn't notice what npm start actually does. I assumed it started a server to host the files. It actually runs the theme to produce code. I typically just run node node make-example.js -f manually. If you drop the -f it "might" be able to rebuild the docs with your local copy of files instead of re-installing everything.

bit-docs is still very alpha-ish software. My goal is to clean it up after DoneJS 1.0 is released.

Is there some part of the theme you are working on? I can point you in the right direction.

miketlawrence commented 7 years ago

Ok cool, I'll try node node make-example.js -fnext time. I was planning to run through the HTML and add some assistive technology markup, so no one spot in particular -- just starting on index.html.

I was on Gitter with @phillipskevin earlier and he helped me get my bearings a bit.