nacmartin / node-sass-chokidar

A thin wrapper around node-sass to replicate the --watch using chokidar instead of Gaze

node-sass-chokidar

A thin wrapper around node-sass executable to use chokidar instead of Gaze when watching files.

All the functionality of the node-sass executable is still in tact, the only difference being chokidar instead of Gaze for watching files.

Why? Because Gaze in docker and various virtual machines uses a lot of resources whereas chokidar does not. Read about the advantages of chokidar

When using node-sass --watch in docker for mac you will get really high CPU usage with com.docker.hyperkit and com.docker.osxfs (I've seen reports of up to 300%). The cause of this is the node-sass dependency on Gaze. This package fixes this issue by using chokidar with node-sass instead of Gaze.

Usage

The exact same as the node-sass executable except:

• the --recursive flag is non-configurable and always set to true.
• why? forcing chokidar to be non-recursive is beyond the scope of this package

example:

node-sass-chokidar src/ -o src/ --watch --recursive

Contributing

Feel free.