Watch command

[dazld]

Would like a simple way to watch the test folder for changes, and re-run when something is updated.

I guess it'd be simple to wrap this call around something and come up with a DIY solution, but would be great if it was built in.

[hueniverse]

This does not make sense for a test runner.

[toymachiner62]

Mocha has this feature and it's great b/c I do not have to have a grunt task to watch the file. I can just call $ mocha my-test.js -w and it automatically watches the file for changes. 👍

[chrisinajar]

This is a very very useful feature for anyone doing TDD. A lot better than cmd+s, alt+tab, up, enter... 👍

[ghost]

How about using fsmonitor?

[chrisinajar]

There are a hundred tools to do it, I'm using nodemon personally, but why not just build it in with a flag? Since most people are coming from the mocha world, matching their feature set isn't a bad objective.

Lab solves so many problems for you, and then just has this 1 random broken window where you have to solve it yourself. It'd be different and I would understand if the project philosophically aimed to be unopinionated, but that's not the type of project this is.

[ghost]

Why would you implement something that can already be done using tools that
specialize in solving this particular requirement? I personally prefer to
keep my choice of tool when I change my test runner ...
On Jun 3, 2015 7:36 PM, "Chris Vickery" notifications@github.com wrote:

There are a hundred tools to do it, I'm using nodemon personally, but why
not just build it in with a flag? Since most people are coming from the
mocha world, matching their feature set isn't a bad objective.

Lab solves so many problems for you, and then just has this 1 random
broken window where you have to solve it yourself. It'd be different and I
would understand if the project philosophically aimed to be unopinionated,
but that's not the type of project this is.

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[AdriVanHoudt]

you can run fsmonitor -s -p '+*.js' npm test and I'll do the trick for you, you can even put that in a npm command like npm run watch

[Marsup]

If you use gulp/grunt/... like all the kids these days, it also already does that for you.

[dazld]

please lock this, it was an off the cuff thought, and repo owners have already replied.

solution: can use any of the myriad task runners as @Marsup mentions.

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