https://github.com/apinstein/watchngo

A php-native inotify-based file watcher to easily trigger compilation. Debounces and coalesces changes to multiple files related to the same desired action.
https://github.com/apinstein/watchngo

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A php-native inotify-based file watcher to easily trigger compilation. Debounces and coalesces changes to multiple files related to the same desired action.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/apinstein/watchngo
• Owner: apinstein
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-08-25T15:13:34.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-10-22T17:35:26.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-14T12:06:07.944Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: PHP
• Size: 129 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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watchngo

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A php-native inotify-based file watcher to easily trigger compilation. Debounces and coalesces changes to multiple files related to the same desired action.

Background

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We have a large app with 4-5 different things that need "watch & recompile" functionality (compass, coffeescript, etc). 

I spent *hours* trying to get various solutions like guard working but was never able to get them configured to work properly. Also in many cases they didn't notice events on certain machines, I think due to the different save mechanisms of say vim vs TextMate.

Besides, I am sick of having to use ruby/node projects to manage tasks in my PHP codebase, and am trying to help the PHP community have access to more robust tooling.

* guard for php

* grunt for php

Features

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* Configure as many different "groups" as you want

* Specify a glob of files to monitor

* Specify an action to perform when a change is detected in the monitored files

* Each groups' various watches are coalseced and de-bounced, such that if you *save all* on various files in a project, the action will run only once, and only after the *last* detected change, debounced at 2s

Status

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The script completley works, but it's obviously terrible code. I was just testing out the basic parts as fast as possible.

Going forward I'd like to refactor this into a proper CLI app with a config file, and possible plugins which can generate configs for common projects like (ie a compass generator could inspect your compass configs and auto-generate watchngo configs).