Sentry is a simple node tool to watch for file changes (using a path, wildcards, or regexes) and execute a function or shell command. It's like a watchr or guard for node.
$ npm install sentry
sentry = require 'sentry'
# Watch changes in file.js
sentry.watch 'file.js', (filename) -> console.log "A change has been made in #{file}"
# Watch changes on any file ending in .coffee one directory deep
sentry.watch 'fld/*.coffee', ->
# Watch changes recursively on any files
sentry.watch 'fld/**/*', ->
# Watch files recursively that match a regex
sentry.watchRegExp 'fld/', /regex/, ->
# If you pass a string instead of a function it'll execute that child process
sentry.watch 'file.coffee', 'coffee -c'Sentry comes with two methods watch and watchRegExp.
When running a child process you may optionally pass a callback with the arguments (err, stdout, stderr)
sentry.watch 'file.js', 'coffee -c', (err, stdout, stderr) ->Or just pass a callback and Sentry will pass the filename to the callback
sentry.watch 'file.js', (filename) ->Feel free to use wildcards with extensions
# Find all files one directory deep
sentry.watch '/folder/*', ->
# Find all files one directory deep ending in .coffee
sentry.watch '/folder/*.coffee', ->
# Find all files recursively
sentry.watch '/folder/**/*', ->
# Find all files recursively ending in .txt
sentry.watch '/folder/**/*.txt', ->Just like sentry.watch but instead you must pass a root directory and regular expression to match files against.
# Find all files in this folder that end in .coffee
sentry.watchRegExp '', /\.coffee$/, ->
# Find all files in the adjacent 'test' folder that begin with `test_` and end in `.coffee`
sentry.watchRegExp '../tests/', /^test_,.coffee$/, ->Sentry uses Jasmine-node for testing. Simply run the jasmine-node command with the coffeescript flag
jasmine-node spec --coffee