(1) cmd tool (watch) does NOT work for template (2) does NOT work for all formats when using vscode editor

[sgon00]

Some backgrounds

• Sorry that I did a lot of editing after opening this issue. Now, after I understand the problem even more clear, I will try to reformat the question again. I hope my words make sense. Thank you very much for your project and help.

• There are actually 4 problems. I am not sure if I should open 4 issues or just single one. I will try to describe 4 problems here for now.

• I am running Linux OS (MX Linux based on debian 10).

• I installed the latest minify cmd tool from the git clone source at the time I am posting this issue.

• Values of my variables:
  $CSS_SRC_PATH is web/src/css/
  $CSS_DST_PATH is web/dist/css/
  $TMPL_SRC_PATH is web/src/template/
  $TMPL_DST_PATH is web/dist/template/

(1) cmd tool watch feature does NOT work for template

minify -w -r --type=html -o $TMPL_DST_PATH $TMPL_SRC_PATH

The above command does NOT work at all. There is no minifying happened.

Then I tried the following cml:

minify -w --type=html -o $TMPL_DST_PATH $TMPL_SRC_PATH/*.tmpl

The above command only minifies files once. The -w watching does NOT work at all. After I change something in the src tempate, there is no further minifying update.

(2) cmd tool watch does NOT work for all formats when the src is not a directory

From the README.md, it should work when src is not a directory, but it doesn't work.

minify -w -o $CSS_DST_PATH $CSS_SRC_PATH/*.css

The above -w watch command does NOT work. No watch update at all.

minify -w -o $CSS_DST_PATH $CSS_SRC_PATH/test.css

The above -w watch command does NOT work. No watch update at all.

(3) cmd tool watch does NOT work when target/destination is not a directory

From README.md, the example shows I can use non directory destination with watch.

minify -w -o $CSS_DST_PATH/test.css $CSS_SRC_PATH/test.css

The above command does NOT work at all. Error msg: ERROR: --watch requires destination to be a directory.
If destination can not be a non-directory, I can not give a different destination filename when using minify+watch.

(4) cmd tool watch does NOT work for all formats when using vscode editor

minify -w -r -o $CSS_DST_PATH $CSS_SRC_PATH

When I use vscode editor and opened both src and dst files. After I update src css file, the target file becomes an empty file most of times.

When I use some simple editor such as vim or kwrite, the watch update works as expected.

I have no ideas what's going on with rich editors (or IDEs). I don't have auto-save turned on in vscode editor.
I did save only once after the modification update. But magically, the target file will become empty.
I never meet such problem with other watching update tools such as gulp watch tools etc...

Thank you very much for your time.

[tdewolff]

Thanks for the elaborate bug report. Looks like the watch functionality needs some work. However, to address two concerns: 1) minifying templates is not really supported, though even so the watch functionality should work. I will look into this. 4) some IDEs work differently with saving files which may affect the watch function. I should install vscode and see how it saves files.

This will take some time to fix, thanks again for the report!

[tdewolff]

Fixed a bunch of bugs in the watch functionality, please check if it's working well for you (the points you addressed should all be fixed now). Feedback appreciated ;-)