--watch should run on change of every file in tree

[mcollina]

Currently --watch just run itself after a change to a js in the current folder.

Why don't extend it to every file in the tree (excluding node_modules)?

[tj]

I guess it could, but as a js testing framework it makes sense to me at least, though I suppose for some libs changing image fixtures or something would be nice. What's your use-case?

[mcollina]

It's simple, running test manually disrupt my focus.
Maybe it's a rubyist thing, but I tend to write short and clearly separated
modules, thus leading to lots of files and tests, usually deep in a
directory tree.

When I change a file under lib, or even a test, I see in growl if
everything is good or not. It's much, much faster than switching back to
the shell to run the tests and check the output.

Really, it's a feature for the laziest developers :).

OT
As node caches the required files, I've seen you call delete require.cache[file]. However in this way you could not remove from the
cache the dependencies in the correct order, or could you? If you have file
A that depends on file B, you must reload B first, and then move to A.
I think it's better deleting all the file in the cache, and then requiring
them again.

[tj]

it does watch every javascript file, but not images etc..

[mcollina]

I've checked that, it doesn't work for me because I'm using coffeescript,
and the utils.files method doesn't use the global pattern, but only /.js$/.

Could you fix that?

[tj]

oh yuck, yeah i'll fix it