On: Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy ...

[amelius]

Do you manually invoke "make" every time you edit a file on the server? Nodejs has tools to automate this (and make it fast).

[rubiquity → amelius]

Most UNIXes already have a command line tool for this. It's called entr: http://entrproject.org

[kccqzy → amelius]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned editors yet. We are an emacs shop here so we all just use an after-save-hook embedded as a comment in the source to automatically trigger a rebuild, whenever you save the file. No need for a separate tool to watch files.

[bjt → amelius]

I have a make task that uses chokidar to watch changes to my JS and CSS. When one changes, chokidar then calls another make task to rebuild things.