[ANN] garden-watch

[Timothy Washington]

garden-watch is very similar to hiccup-watch (previous ann). But this time, we're compiling down to CSS, using the Garden library. Again, this is just a leiningen watcher plugin that monitors for changes in your Garden source files. 

And again, this is new software. So feel free to use, modify and make suggestions and / or pull requests. Treat this tool the same way you would treat guard-sass. I like to serve up just raw HTML files and templates. So both these tools fit nicely into my toolbox.

• [garden-watch "0.1.1"]
  
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Tim Washington 

Interruptsoftware.com

[Dave Sann]

FYI, I think lein garden does this already. is there a particular difference?

[Timothy Washington]

Hey Dave, 

Thanks for that heads up. I originally wanted auto-compiling for HAML and SCSS. But then thought why, when I could just use edn with Hiccup and Garden. Now, a lein-hiccup, or some auto compile tool doesn't exist to my knowledge. So i) I had to do that work anyways. Then I spent 20 mins replicating the functionality for Garden. Also I think lein-garden tracks edn style definitions, inlined in your existing Clojure code, whereas ii) I wanted a separate directory watcher on edn files (no namespaces needed). 

But there's nothing that says that functionality in garden-watch couldn't be collapsed into lein-garden. It's pretty straightforward code. 

Tim Washington 

Interruptsoftware.com 

[Joel Holdbrooks]

The idea to watch edn or garden files was a consideration of lein-garden but decided against it because, personally, I felt it was giving up a lot. However, some folks may prefer this approach and, hopefully, it suits them just as well.

[Timothy Washington]

Ok, that's fine. Definitely good to have both ways to tackle the problem. But I'm curious. What do you feel is being given up by watching garden files? 

Thanks 

Tim Washington 

Interruptsoftware.com 

[Joel Holdbrooks]

Clojure.

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[Timothy Washington]

Lol, fair enough :)