A loyal friend help for watching your CoffeeScript files

[sudo] npm install -g cake-dog

You can use cakedog as a command-line tool

$ cakedog --help

  Usage: cakedog [options] <command>

  Commands:

    compile                compile to JavaScript and save as .js files
    watch                  watch for the file changes and compile to .js files
    unwatch                stop watch for the file changes
    kill                   stop all watchers
    resurrect              resurrect previously watched processes

  Options:

    -h, --help             output usage information
    -V, --version          output the version number
    -o, --output <output>  set the output directory for compiled JavaScript
    -s, --source <source>  set the source directory for CoffeeScript

You can prepend one line in your Cakefile

require("cake-dog")(options)

Now use cake command to see new tasks, these cake tasks will compile the source code from 'source' to 'output'

The default options is {source: 'src', output: 'lib'}

$ cake
Cakefile defines the following tasks:

cake compile      # once compile coffee scripts to javascript files
cake watch        # real-time compile coffee scripts to javascript files
cake unwatch      # stop compile coffee scripts to javascript files

[sudo] npm rm -g cake-dog

And don't forget to remove the require("cake-dog") in your Cakefile (if you have done this).

Done!

• set the forked process title to source directory

• update coffee-script version
• bugfix in cli mode

• unwatch now support kill process by path name. It kills each process which contain the name in path.
• support kill command

• support options in Cakefile

• install cakedog as a global package and run in cli mode
• auto save the latest watch directories, and resurrect after reboot
• add options to watch directories

• Error: watch EMFILE when use cake watch This is caused by the limit of the use of system-wide resources in *nix system, you can increase the limitation by ulimit -n XXXX and this message will not show again, the XXXX is the number of limitation, set it greater than your watched file number.

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