Question

I have decided to use ExpressJS with CoffeeScript and Stylus. Usually when I work with CoffeeScript, I do a coffee --watch and something similar for Compass/SASS. Here, since CoffeeScript and Stylus are available as a NPM package, I was thinking if its possible to write CoffeeScript and Stylus and have Node/Express compile them when required? This way I wont need a watcher anymore.

Also when I create an express app using express -c stylus, in app.js I get additional:

app.use(require('stylus').middleware({ src: __dirname + '/public' }));

What does it actually do? It doesn’t appear to compile my CSS? When I put

body
    background: red

into the default style.styl file, restart server, it doesn’t appear to show

Answer 1

Ok so theres connect-assets for this exact purpose. Now I am still looking for something for server side …