How do you make grunt watch livereload ignore dotfiles?

[mark0978]

emacs creates some .files when a file is being edited, this is causing grunt to blow a gasket trying to deal with livereload. I think I could fix this if I just knew how to tell livereload to ignore dotfiles, but under the livereload task, I have:

  livereload: {
    options: {
      livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
    },
    files: [
      '<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
      '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
      '{.tmp,<%= yeoman.app %>}/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
      '<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
    ]
  }

If files was a "normal" object then I could just add

dot: false 

and all would be well? Docs don't help with this problem at all...

[hyperscientist]

Read http://gruntjs.com/configuring-tasks#globbing-patterns

this thing: "! at the beginning of a pattern will negate the match"

So just add one more rule that will search for filenames starting with a dot and then just negate it.

[shama]

It should ignore dotfiles by default. Unless the dot option is set:

watch: {
  target: {
    options: { dot: true },
    files: ['lib/.test.js'],
  },
},

You can explicitly ignore dot files like @kamiltrebunia said. Just make sure the pattern is at the end that you want to negate:

 livereload: {
    options: {
      livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
    },
    files: [
      '<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
      '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
      '{.tmp,<%= yeoman.app %>}/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
      '<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}',
      '!.**/*',
    ]
  }

[mark0978]

So I've modified livereload like this:

  livereload: {
    options: {
      livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>',
  dot: false
    },
    files: [
        '<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
        '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
        '{.tmp,<%= yeoman.app %>}/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
        '<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}',
    '!.**/*'
    ]
  }

And grunt keeps doing this:

Running "watch" task
Waiting...Verifying property watch exists in config...OK
Verifying property watch.compass.files exists in config...OK
Verifying property watch.styles.files exists in config...OK
Verifying property watch.livereload.files exists in config...OK
Warning: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/home/mark/js/project/app/scripts/.#app.js'

Running "watch" task
Waiting...Verifying property watch exists in config...OK
Verifying property watch.compass.files exists in config...OK
Verifying property watch.styles.files exists in config...OK
Verifying property watch.livereload.files exists in config...OK
Warning: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/home/mark/js/project/app/scripts/.#app.js'

several times a second

[shama]

Ah I think that may be this upstream issue in shama/gaze#45

[mark0978]

Yea, I think you are onto something! Seems the the exact same problem.

[pezra]

Gaze claims to have solved this problem in the 0.6.x series of Gaze. Any chance someone who is more familiar with these project could bump the dependency? (I tried but a few tests broke.)

[shama]

@pezra More changes are needed in gaze before we can bump the dependency here.

[tleen]

It's not just gaze, other grunt plugins seem guilty of this as well.

[emosesSfdc]

Any update on this? It looks like gaze fixed the problem almost a year ago.

[vincentbernat]

@shama What is missing to be able to update gaze dependency to 0.6? I am also hit by this bug and this is annoying.

[shama]

1. All tests need to pass (OSX, Linux, and Windows with Node.js v0.12, v0.10 and io.js) on this branch: https://github.com/shama/gaze/tree/navelgazer
2. All tests need to pass (OSX, Linux, and Windows with Node.js v0.12, v0.10 and io.js) after integrating that next version of gaze here on grunt-contrib-watch

I'll get to it eventually (I've been saying that for a year sorry) but maybe there is a hero that could help get it done sooner?