bos-watcherless

#Fork Watcherless Based#

Unsatisfied with the less file watchers on NPM, I've created _watcherless_ to be a more reliable solution.
_Watcherless_ uses chokidar as the library for file watching which has better
reliability than fs.watch or stalker.

_When I started this project, there wasn't already one on NPM with the name "watchless", so I had to alter - hence the different name repo_

##Install##

``BASH
npm install -g watcherless # to install global, include -g
`

##Usage##

###Command Line###

`BASH

Usage: watcherless [options]

= The source directory or less file to compile
= The destination directory for the compiled CSS

OPTIONS
-e, --extension = The extension for the compiled CSS file, .min is prefixed if compression is enabled
-c, --compress = Enable compress on compiled CSS
-h, --help = This menu

`

In a typical watcher solution for package.json:

`JSON
...

{
"scripts": {
"watch-js": "watchify app/js/script.js -o app/static/bundle.min.js",
"watch-less": "watcherless -c app/less app/css",
"watch": "npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less"
}
}
...

`

`BASH
npm run watch
`

###Node.js###

`JS
var watcherless = require("watcherless");

var options = {
source: "app/less/test.less",
destination: "app/css",
compress: true
};

var watcher = watcherless(options); // When source and destination are supplied in the options, watch starts automatically

`

`JS
var watcherless = require("watcherless");

var options = {
compress: true
};

var watcher = watcherless(options);

watcher.watch("app/less", "app/css"); // The watcher can be started by calling watch. If the source or destination aren't supplied, they are pulled from the options

watcher.stop(); // Stop watching files
``