Quick and easy cli command to watch a directory for file changes and run a provided command when any files have been changed, removed or added.
npm install -g tend
Usage:
tend
tend <action>
tend [--restart] [--start] [--ignoreHidden] [--filter <filter>] [<dir> <command>]
tend (--help | --version)
Options:
-h --help Show this help text
-v --version Show tend version information
-r --restart If <command> is still running when there is a change, stop and re-run it
-i --ignoreHidden Ignore changes to files which start with "."
-f --filter <filter> Use <filter> regular expression to filter which files trigger the command
-s --start Run <command> as soon as tend executes
tend --restart --ignoreHidden ./ "node server.js"
Running tend
with no cli arguments will try to load your .tendrc
file and start from any configuration set in that
tend
will try to load your .tendrc
file and run the command provided in the section <action>
. It will run the command
once and will not watch for changes in directory
.
tend [--restart] [--start] [--ignoreHidden] [--filter <filter>] [<dir> <command>]
Run tend
with options for a single directory/command from cli rather than loading options from .tendrc
.
Show help/version information about tend
tend
can accept it's configuration from a .tendrc
file rather than taking arguments from
the command line. Using .tendrc
also allows you to run multiple instances of tend
at once.
.tendrc
files are parsed using rc.
; global settings
ignoreHidden=true
[js]
directory=./src
command=uglifyjs -o ./build/main.min.js ./src/*.js
[app]
directory=./app
command=node ./app/server.js
restart=true
start=true
The above config will run two instances of tend
:
tend --ignoreHidden ./src "uglifyjs -o ./build/main.min.js ./src/*.js"
# AND
tend --ignoreHidden --restart ./app "node ./app/server.js"
ignoreHidden
- ignore hidden foldersrestart
- restartcommand
if a file changes while the previous is still runningstart
- startcommand
whentend
startsdirectory
- the directory to watch for changesfilter
- regular expression filter for filenames which will triggercommand
command
- the command to run when a file has changed
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