[Suggestion] Verb Watcher

Current situation: I am using verb quite often in combination with grip (https://github.com/joeyespo/grip), just to review my READMEs before uploading. Currently - after each change - I have to run verb in the CLI.

Proposal: It would be extremely helpful to have an option for verb (or verb-cli basically) to watch the changes in the following files:

verb -w watches the following changes and re-runs verb:

• package.json - Just in cases you are making changes to the configuration of verb
• verbfile.js - In case you change the custom verbfile.js file
• .verb.md - To watch the structure of the default verb file.
• ./docs/**/*.* - Watch all changes of .md files, but also any other files in this directory (e.g. images, etc.)

@jonschlinkert, @doowb: What do you think?

[jonschlinkert]

@stefanwalther that’s awesome!

btw, as a side note, I know I’ve been saying this forever, but we’re very close to merging verb to master and publishing. we’re finally working on the finishing touches to some libraries we wanted to finish first.

[tunnckoCore]

I believe you can do this manually currently with dev/0.9.0.

verbfile.js

var watch = require('base-watch')
var verb = require('verb');
var app = verb().use(watch());

app.watch([
  'package.json',
  'verbfile.js',
  '.verb.md',
  './docs/**/*.*'
], {options: 'to chokidar'})

module.exports = app;

docs https://github.com/node-base/base-watch

But yea, builtin would be good too.