Watch mode / hot reload

[mrchantey]

Does as-pect support a watch mode?
At the moment i'm using onchange but its a little clunky and I cant get working outside of npm scripts:

//-i = run on start, -k = kill previous on change
npx onchange -i -k \"assembly/**/*.ts\" -- npx asp

If there's interest I could have a look at implementing it and creating a PR, here's the code I use for some other scripts:

import fs from 'fs-extra'
export const watchDirectory = (dir: string, onChange: (val: 'rename' | 'change') => any, runOnStart = true) => {
	if (runOnStart)
		onChange('change')
	return fs.watch(dir, { recursive: true }, onChange)
}

[willemneal]

There isn't a watch mode, but others have had success with https://www.npmjs.com/package/watch. If you don't find that suitable, feel free to submit a PR!

[mrchantey]

As a side note, just found out the reason i couldnt get onchange working properly is an npm-powershell bug about using double slash -- to pass arguments.
Current solution is to use triple slash npm run test --- -f=myTest
ah well, PR is up now 😅