Better file watching #5
Description
Watching files today is a bit hard, and it doesn't do it right. The current stack uses nodemon, but that's a bit too simple to our needs. Let's get ambitious.
What doesn't work today
- Changing HTML files won't trigger an update, and that's needed specially because we deal with server-side rendering.
- It's not possible to trigger a reload manually. Nodemon provides the
rscommando, which restarts the server, but piping the output makes that unavailable. - Error won't show up in the output, which is bad for development.
- Browserify compilation errors won't show up on the dev console
The happy land of development
- Any file change (HTML, Javascript, CSS, Yaml) should trigger a server restart.
- Too many restarts will put a heavy burden on the dev machine, so waiting a couple milliseconds to account for css compilations and the like should be there.
- A way to control the node instance, being able to reboot it, change modes and the like.