Watch task notices changed files, but newer seems to skip them, LESS related.

[jdhorner]

LESS task defined as below in grunt file:

less: {
  all: {
    options: {
      strictImports: true
    },
    files: [
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/shared/less/global.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/global.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/app/common/less/app.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/app.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/app/taxes/less/taxes.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/taxes.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/app/storeAdmin/less/storeAdmin.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/storeAdmin.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/corp/less/corp.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/amilia-corporation.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/directory/less/directory.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/amilia-directory.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/claim/less/claim.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/amilia-claim.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/store/less/store.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/amilia-store.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/store/less/store-mobile.less'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/amilia-store-mobile.css'},
      {src: ['<%= am.third %>/backgrid/*.css'], dest: '<%= am.dest %>/css/amilia.app-libs.css'}
    ]
  },
}

And the Grunt watch task is as below:

watch: {
  lessfiles: {
    files: ['<%= am.assets %>/src/**/*.less'],
    tasks: ['newer:less:all', 'newer:autoprefixer:dist']
  },
}

Finally, as watch is waiting for changes, I tested by editing the file home.less, and got the output in my terminal as follows:

Running "watch" task
Waiting...OK
>> File "..\assets\src\corp\less\home.less" changed.

Running "newer:less:all" (newer) task
No newer files to process.

[jdhorner]

I just now realized this, I suppose, is basically the same as #29.

[tschaub]

Yeah, since home.less is not one of your src files, the newer task doesn't know anything about it (the watch task doesn't pass along any information to other tasks, it just triggers them).

I'll report back on #29 and #18 when there is a general solution.

[tschaub]

See #35 for a proposed general solution and #29 for any discussion specific to LESS.