It's quite hard to work out how to get Gulp to work correctly with this setup, and I got sick of figuring it out every time. Here's a starter project that sets you up with a simple Connect server (with livereload built-in) to serve your files, and a browserify module system all running neatly in Livescript.
Grab, this repo, run npm i, start the server with
gulp and start modifying the files to begin. The repo
contains a tiny proof-of-concept program to build from.
By default the gulp command will start the Connect
server at localhost:8080 and start a livereload server
to go with it on the default port. The connect livereload
plugin automatically injects the LR snippet onto your page
so it works automatically with LR browser plugins.
If you find that gulp-watch is rebuilding your JS file
twice for every time you save, and you're using vim, it
may be because vim sometimes touches files twice when
working with backups enabled. To stop it, set
nowritebackup in your vimrc.
- Comprehensive error handling... gulp-plumber?
- Improve error formatting
- Stylesheet compilation as well maybe