Feature: Option "recursive"

[softwaretechniker]

Thank you very much for developing (or contributing to) that nice little watcher!

Actually if you'd like to limit watching files on a folder without any sub-folders, it is not possible yet.

Maybe a check on any configuration in lib/lessWatchCompilerUtils.js at line 83 would be enough?

A check on any option "recursive" would be nice, for defining watched main files (included files still needs to be watched, of course - what doesn't seem to be successfully watched recursively in current version?).

A matured alternative would be a recursion-"depth"-option, but it may get more complicated and the use-cases more rare, and could added afterwards, too.

Another helpful option in similar context could be the possibility to define multiple main-files.

Best regards

[Luke1298]

+1

[softwaretechniker]

Because I still didn't found any alternatives, I migrated all my LESS sources to SASS (scss). It was easy using some other open-source-tool (just a few manual fixes). In SASS I have a (more powerfull) file-watcher out of the box and similar syntax and functionallity. Maybe this helps anyone waiting for that functionallity as well.
...and after migrating to SASS I even bought an IDE with file watcher functionallity 🤣

[jw-12138]

Because I still didn't found any alternatives, I migrated all my LESS sources to SASS (scss). It was easy using some other open-source-tool (just a few manual fixes). In SASS I have a (more powerfull) file-watcher out of the box and similar syntax and functionallity. Maybe this helps anyone waiting for that functionallity as well.
...and after migrating to SASS I even bought an IDE with file watcher functionallity 🤣

I've noticed this problems few weeks ago, try my version of less compiler https://github.com/jw-12138/lessby, it has a recursive option 🌝

[jonycheung]

Thank you all. The library does recursively watch all files in subdirectories already if a folder is passed without a main file. But when a main file is passed, only the main file is recompiled upon any change. I think I could provide a way to watch multiple main files and recompile all of them when a change is detected in any of the subdirectories. would that work?