Thanks Erin. I have a similar thing we use based on Grunt which I setup to handle the copies and dynamically compiling the LESS files in our environment. It's nice this is setup for Rave development. Now we just need a way to dynamically recompile the Java in small chunks!!
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Scott Wilson < [email protected]> wrote: > On 26 Apr 2014, at 21:47, Erin Noe-Payne wrote: > > > Hey all, I just wanted to share a tool I've been using for developing on > rave. > > > > Basically when I do a lot of work with static web files - css, js, > > jsps, etc - I don't want to have to rebuild the project in order to > > refresh the page and see updates. To handle this, I wrote a simple > > node.js script that recursively watches the source directory and > > copies any changed files to the target build directory. > > > Wookie has a "widget watcher" thread that looks for .wgt files being > dropped into the deploy folder - this reuses some of the code from Tomcat > that checks for added/modified WARs. I reckon it could also be repurposed > for live editing as well, I'd just never thought of using it that way :) > > > > > I've polished it up a bit and posted it on github here: > > https://github.com/autoric/liveedit. > > > > If you have any suggestions for a better workflow, want to submit a > > pull requests against that script, or whatever, feel free. No > > guarantees - this has just been useful for me so I figured I would > > share. > > > > Cheers > > Erin > >
