nef jekyll --watch
ferranpujolcamins opened this issue · 1 comments
I usually write my docs on a swift playground while previewing the generated jekyll site in my browser.
I use jekyll serve
, but I still to run nef jekyll
manually in order for the generated markdown to be updated on a change.
I'd love a --watch option so nef automatically regenerates the markdown files for me.
Ey @ferranpujolcamins,
firstly, I appreciate your suggestions ^^ - thanks for coming to nef and give it a try!
About your suggestion, I agree it is a nice-to-have feature. Currently, I'm working on big refactor to migrate nef to a complete functional architecture using bow+swift. I comment about it because this refactor will help in future features like this one.
After the refactor, nef will provide APIs like
static func render(playgroundsAt: URL,
mainPage: URL,
into output: URL) -> IO<nef.Error, NEA<URL>>
Where IO<nef.Error, NEA<URL>>
will be:
- fails error with type
nef.Error
- success
NEA<URL>
list of rendering Playgrounds.
So you can easily call them to regenerate your Jekyll site. On a first review, we should investigate 2 things:
- How to subscribe to changes in any folder at mac-filesystem, so reactively we could invoke nef API after for example save any page (or playground)
- Let if we could invoke a refresh in the browser to auto-render the new content (prevent cache web-browser...) [maybe Jekyll server does it for us]
On this way, easily we could provide the option you suggest, whereafter any change in your playground it will regenerate your jekyll-site.
While I continue working on the refactor, if you want, you can investigate it... even add this option to jekyll-CLI when the refactor will be completed. (~mid of feb)
wdut?
Of course, when you start to work in the feature, I will provide u with any resource or help you need :)