watchngo
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A php-native inotify-based file watcher to easily trigger compilation. Debounces and coalesces changes to multiple files related to the same desired action.

watchngo
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A php-native inotify-based file watcher to easily trigger compilation. Debounces and coalesces changes to multiple files related to the same desired action.

Background
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We have a large app with 4-5 different things that need "watch & recompile" functionality (compass, coffeescript, etc). 

I spent *hours* trying to get various solutions like guard working but was never able to get them configured to work properly. Also in many cases they didn't notice events on certain machines, I think due to the different save mechanisms of say vim vs TextMate.

Besides, I am sick of having to use ruby/node projects to manage tasks in my PHP codebase, and am trying to help the PHP community have access to more robust tooling.

* guard for php
* grunt for php

Features
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* Configure as many different "groups" as you want
* Specify a glob of files to monitor
* Specify an action to perform when a change is detected in the monitored files
* Each groups' various watches are coalseced and de-bounced, such that if you *save all* on various files in a project, the action will run only once, and only after the *last* detected change, debounced at 2s

Status
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The script completley works, but it's obviously terrible code. I was just testing out the basic parts as fast as possible.

Going forward I'd like to refactor this into a proper CLI app with a config file, and possible plugins which can generate configs for common projects like (ie a compass generator could inspect your compass configs and auto-generate watchngo configs).

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