Bounce

Reloads process upon changes to source files and exceptions. Great for development.

How?

Runs node as child process whilst watching specified files changes. If a change is detected, the child process is restarted.

All STDOUT AND STDERR should be piped back to the console, so it shouldn't look any different.

Install

npm install bounce

Usage

bounce [-r] [-g] -w 'dir1,dir2' 'command_to_run -a -b arg1 arg2'

-w: watch paths, comma separated. If using globs () then must be wrapped in quotes, e.g. 'lib/.*' -r: respawn on child process exit -g: growl notify on child process exit (needs growlnotify) -h: show this usage

Running Tests

• bin/bounce -r -g -w "" "test/.js,test//.js" "node test/test.js"

  Changes to test.js and watch/file.js should cause the counter to restart. Counter should restart after 10 s (due to exception being thrown)

• bin/bounce "node test/error.js" Should throw an error and exit immediately

Tested on Ubuntu/OSX on Node 0.2.3