Question

I’d like to play around with integrating coffeescript into my dev process. But as I see it, I’ll have to make a bat file that iterates a set of coffee files and spits out js files. Every time I write a bat file, useful as they may be, I ask myself: is there a better way?

Which makes me wonder: is there an app of some sort for Windows that will watch a directory or a file and spit out one/many js files when a coffee file is saved? I’m thinking of building one but don’t want to reinvent the wheel. I looked around and found things that were similar but nothing that elevated it beyond “run this command line” on Windows.

Edit: already marked an answer, but looking at this 10 months later the answer is: grunt. Because it’ll do a lot more than just auto-compile your coffeescript and you’ll probably need to do more than just that to get your app going.

Answer 1

coffee --watch -o lib -c src

where src is a directory containing your coffee files, and lib is your JavaScript output directory.