M-Zuber/npm-watch

Enhancement - runOnStartupOnly

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ca0v commented

npm-watch has the neat effect of running scripts in parallel and a runOnStartupOnly option might be useful to tell npm-watch to run a batch of scripts once and then terminate (like npm-run-all).

M-Zuber commented

I am not so sure if this is in scope for this project.
It's point is specifically to provide the ability to watch and re-run scripts.

That said, I will leave this open a bit as I think it over, and to see if anyone else has feedback.

songoo commented

Hello, on my local develop machine "npm run watch" is great. But on server where I do releases, how can i make an command "npm run watch once" or something so it does not keep running in background ?

Gyunikuchan commented

This hack works for me

"watch": {
  "watcher-initialize": {
    "patterns": [
      "only-run-once.please"
    ]
  }
}
M-Zuber commented

Since there is a workaround, and the feature is out of scope for this project, I am closing the issue.