swank Reborn

• software

A few months ago, I released swank. I recently decided that a watching livereload server is a critical missing feature. When I went to add it, I saw how awful my old code was and did a complete rewrite in the process.

Changelog

Enhancements

• Added a test suite
  • The tests are really slow, because basically each one spawns a process and then makes a network request. There’s probably some room for optimization here
• Added watch+livereload
  • This took a suprising amount of packages to accomplish:
    • watch to watch for file changes
    • connect-livereload for script insertion
    • tiny-lr to act as the reload server
• Better argument parsing with nopt
• Modularized
  • You can now use swank as a module with require(). Not sure why you’d need to do this, but it’s a lot cleaner
• Updated connect
  • The new version separated out some common tasks into their own packages
    • morgan for logging
    • serve-static for serving static files
• JSHint‘d
• Using TravisCI
• Added terminal colors

Bug Fixes

• Previously, leaving off a directory did not default to the current working directory as expected