--watch is not working on node 0.10/0.12

[voronianski]

Using cssnext version 1.6.0 but --watch option is not working.

cssnext --watch cssnext/index.css public/styles.css --verbose

[MoOx]

Please provide more info: node/npm version, os & command you are trying.

[voronianski]

@MoOx node 0.10.38, npm 1.4.28, OS X 10.10.3, cssnext --watch cssnext/index.css public/styles.css --verbose

[MoOx]

Can you try --verbose as a first arg ?

[voronianski]

@MoOx tried cssnext --verbose --watch cssnext/index.css public/styles.css - no effect.

[MoOx]

What is you css input ?

[voronianski]

@MoOx

@import 'highlight.js/styles/github.css';
@import 'basscss';

header {
    position: fixed;
    display: block;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 32px;
    text-align: center;
    background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, rgba(255, 85, 0, 0.95), rgba(247, 95, 19, 0.8));
    border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.1);
    box-shadow: 0 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
    z-index: 2;
}

.b2 {
    border-width: 2px;
}

:root {
    --font-family: 'Avenir Next', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    --container-width: 640px;
    --yellow: rgba(255, 220, 0, 0.45);
    --orange: #FC561E;
    --button-line-height: 1;
    --sb-progress-height: 8px;
    --button-big-padding-x: 1.25rem;
    --button-big-padding-y: 1.25rem;
}

[MoOx]

Oh i miss 0.10. Watcher only work for 0.12. Also, you should update npm. V3 is almost out.

[MoOx]

Please tell me if upgrading to node 0.12 (or iojs) change something for you.

[voronianski]

@MoOx thanks, on latest node version watcher is working 👍

[sdn90]

node 0.12.4
npm 2.10.1
OS X 10.10.3

Not working for me.. Switched to iojs 2.2.1/npm 2.11.0 and it worked.

[voronianski]

@MoOx same for me.. it stopped working on node 0.12.4..

[MoOx]

Hum... All this watcher issue are boring me. I will switch to another watcher module asap.

[voronianski]

@MoOx please do 👍

[MoOx]

PR is also welcome. @jonathanong told me to use https://github.com/amasad/sane

[MoOx]

Is this working for everyone using iojs ?

[MoOx]

@es128 chokidar is supposed to work on node 10/12 right ?

[es128]

@MoOx yes it works on all mainstream versions of node and io.js. Not enough detail in this thread for me to understand what's going wrong for some users, but it's possible that what's missing is running npm rebuild after any node version change in order to get the native extensions in fsevents recompiled.

That said, chokidar should still work (perhaps with degraded performance) on OS X even when fsevents is not present or otherwise cannot be loaded.

Nonetheless, the first step for anyone saying watching abruptly stopped working or having trouble with specific versions would be to run an npm rebuild.

[jonathanong]

@MoOx you could also try just making your own watcher. i have https://github.com/fs-utils/file-watch which i don't maintain anymore which worked pretty well. could copy and simplify.

[gr0uch]

Not sure if the problem has been partially fixed but I'm using cssnext v1.8.0, Node v0.12.4, OS X 10.10.3, and --watch seems to work only when there are no @import statements.

[MoOx]

Ok seems related to #123

[nerijusgood]

mac, node v0.12.2
"cssnext": "^1.8.2",

cli: cssnext --watch src/app.css build/build.css

with or without imports it does not watch. Paths are correct since it builds without watch.

[MoOx]

Can you try with the --verbose option and show the result here please?