blessanm86 / handlebars-watch

A node module that executes Handlebars precompiler commands whenever a change happens in the watched directories.

#handlebars-watch

A node package that executes Handlebars precompiler commands whenever a change happens in the watched directories.

There are a couple of node packages that does the same thing and even more, but I noticed that most of them are implementing there own precompiler for Handlebars. I just wanted to use the existing Handlebars precompiler and trigger it by watching a folder structure.

Installation

The package may be installed via npm using the npm install -g handlebars-watch command.

Usage

Options:
  -c, --config     Path to Config File   [string]

In CLI

handlebars-watch -c ../build/hbw-config.json

May need to use 'sudo' along with the command in the linux and mac OS.

Inside a node file

var hbw = require('handlebars-watch');
hbw.watchAndCompile('../build/hbw-config.json');

The config file is a simple json array and is required for this package. Each item in the array is a combination of a path and command. The path is the location of the folder to watch and command is the command to execute when the watch is triggered.

Eg.

[{
  "path": "templates/pages/",
  "command": "handlebars templates/pages>pageTemplates.js -a -e html"
},{
  "path": "templates/partials/",
  "command": "handlebars templates/partials>partialTemplates.js -a -p -e html"
}]

1. The path should be relative to the location of the config file.
2. Install Handlebars as a global package.

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