Option for running a server

[silvenon]

It would be nice if guard-nanoc would have an option for running a server, so I don't have to run nanoc view as a separate process.

[denisdefreyne]

nanoc view is removed in nanoc 4.0 because it’s pretty redundant. Alternatives:

• Run adsf manually;
• Set up a web server to serve the output directory. On Mac OS X, this is trivial with Anvil, which I now use all the time.

I’m inclined to say that an option for running a server is not needed, and that a different approach should be recommended (I really like Anvil/pow).

@bobthecow Thoughts?

[bobthecow]

@ddfreyne The one upside to a server is for teh n00bs, and people who don't care to set up an entire ecosystem of stuff just to run an SSG. It's a lot easier to say "run nanoc server and go to localhost:3000".

[silvenon]

Yeah, I would really like that.

[bbakersmith]

I also think this would be nice to have as an option for guard-nanoc. It's not that it's hard to use a dev server gem like adsf or heel directly, but standardizing the process across nanoc projects + developers and decreasing the number of tmux panes I have to keep open has its benefits.

[bobthecow]

having a nanoc-server gem (and accompanying nanoc server command) which just started adsf on the output directory and ran guard-nanoc would probably be enough?

[bbakersmith]

Yeah that seems like it'd do the trick, don't need anything fancy.

[denisdefreyne]

Perhaps an --autobuild option to a nanoc serve command would work. I’m inclined to say that nanoc serve (or nanoc view or whatever) should not run Guard by default, because that means the serve command cannot be used without Guard, which is possibly not ideal.

Invoking guard programmatically seems simple (Guard.setup and Guard.run_all).

[bobthecow]

I'd do it without the flag. People who don't want the jekyll server experience don't need to install nanoc-serve. This is for people who want a more packaged, easier setup.

[denisdefreyne]

Makes sense. They could just run adsf -r output :)

[mpapis]

related #15

[whitequark]

#28

[denisdefreyne]

The nanoc live command (part of guard-nanoc 2.1.0) now covers this case!