Here's a cool gem: https://github.com/atom/watcher https://github.com/atom/watcher There are nice possibilities for this project, it could be abstracted out to

Here's a cool gem: https://github.com/atom/watcher https://github.com/atom/watcher There are nice possibilities for this project, it could be abstracted out to work with FreeBSD and stuff. Grunt/gulp/etc. watch features may be able to utilize it in library form. For a similar project, check out entr(1): http://entrproject.org/ http://entrproject.org/ I'm a full time VIM user, but I'm happy and glad anytime I see VSCode/Atom/etc win. I see it as a great editor for the sake of having one to recommend. Cross-platform, free, active plugin ecosystems.