Add a watch script that auto-deploys on changes

[jappareti]

It'd be nice to be able to watch for changes and auto-deploy them. The workflow is a little cumbersome because on every change you need to run npm run deploy.

Here's my current workflow:

1. Make a change and save the file
2. Run npm run deploy
3. Switch to the browser and navigate to the Google Doc with the Add-on installed and enabled with Latest code.
4. Refresh the page to get newest changes

Coming from other dev workflows, it just feels a little old-school to have to manually deploy and refresh when developing.

It'd be nice to have something like this:

1. Run npm run watch or npm run dev (watches for changes)
2. Make a change and save file (auto-deploys)
3. Auto-reload browser page with Google Doc

Nice work on this, by the way! Everything else is great!

[PrzeOr82]

@jappareti I think that solution for this could be gulpjs.com (it's task runner). You can write a little script that will check if any file hes changed and run npm run deploy

[jlarmstrongiv]

@jappareti another solution could be nodemon. You can set it to watch the dist directory and run the deploy command on changes.

[oshliaer]

@jappareti

You need use the webpack config for this. Just add watch: true to the exports.

[labnol]

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