Custom watcher

[macluck]

Hey,

I have a namespace translation.cljs which compiles translations from json files in public directory. I want to reload this namespace every time when json files are changed.
Here taoensso/tower#70 is a solution for figwheel. Would it be possible to implement something similar in shadow-cljs?

Cheers

[thheller]

Is this json file generated by hand or a tool?

If it is generated by running a tool you can just simply run

the-tool && touch src/path/to/your/translations.cljs

If you have some kind of make-ish setup that should be easy to integrate.

Watching the json file itself would be a bit more involved but certainly doable. Is the "easy" way an option?

[macluck]

json file is generated and modified by hand. The idea is too have a live reload feedback when updating translation files.
Basically yes, the solution would be touching the translations.cljs when json files are changed, but guess have to go here with a more involved solution :) Do you have any ideas?

[thheller]

How are you using shadow-cljs? Standalone or embedded?

[thheller]

You could use something like https://github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/chokidar-cli but I guess the goal is to have something running that starts with your build automatically.

shadow-cljs does not yet have a proper plugin API since I can't figure out how that should look and what plugins should be allowed to do.

[macluck]

Hey, chokidar actually is quite acceptable solution, as i can run it as npm script together with less preprocessor watch script.