[Suggestion] Verb Watcher

[stefanwalther]

Current situation: I am using verb quite often in combination with grip (https://github.com/joeyespo/grip), just to review my READMEs before uploading. Currently - after each change - I have to run verb in the CLI.

Proposal: It would be extremely helpful to have an option for verb (or verb-cli basically) to watch the changes in the following files:

verb -w watches the following changes and re-runs verb:

• package.json - Just in cases you are making changes to the configuration of verb
• verbfile.js - In case you change the custom verbfile.js file
• .verb.md - To watch the structure of the default verb file.
• ./docs/**/*.* - Watch all changes of .md files, but also any other files in this directory (e.g. images, etc.)

@jonschlinkert, @doowb: What do you think?

[tunnckoCore]

I believe you can do this manually currently with dev/0.9.0.

verbfile.js

var watch = require('base-watch')
var verb = require('verb');
var app = verb().use(watch());

app.watch([
  'package.json',
  'verbfile.js',
  '.verb.md',
  './docs/**/*.*'
], {options: 'to chokidar'})

module.exports = app;

docs https://github.com/node-base/base-watch

But yea, builtin would be good too.

[stefanwalther]

Tried to use this, not working, do you have a working setup based on the latest version of verb (and the other components)?

[jonschlinkert]

try https://github.com/jonschlinkert/romanize#building-docs

[stefanwalther]

... solved it with a different approach, using docker-verb and nodemon: https://github.com/stefanwalther/docker-verb#watching-doc-changes

... therefore closing this issue/suggestion ...

[jonschlinkert]

@stefanwalther that's awesome!

btw, as a side note, I know I've been saying this forever, but we're very close to merging verb to master and publishing. we're finally working on the finishing touches to some libraries we wanted to finish first.

[stefanwalther]

@jonschlinkert That sounds good/perfect and having now the docker image it makes it much easier for me to migrate all projects because I can just update the docker image all my project will just be using ;-)