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
Ok so theres connect-assets for this exact purpose. Now I am still looking for something for server side ...
try to set
var stylus = require('stylus');
app.use(stylus.middleware({
src: __dirname + '/public',
compile: function(str, path) {
return stylus(str)
.set('filename', path)
.set('compress', false)
.set('warn', true);
}
}));
This compile function is not required, but without it the styl files don't get compiled..