How can I get node-sass watch and live reload to work from a single NPM script?

Question

Taking the following scripts section from a package.json:

\"scripts\":{
    \"sass:watch\": \"npm run sass -- -w ./src/public/stylesheets -r --s         


        

Answer 1

AFAIK, you can't, in a useful way.

You could push one task to the background by appending & to its command line, but that would keep the task running even when you ^C to stop the running NPM task.

Alternatively, you can call npm run ... twice and bg one:

$ npm run sass:watch &
$ npm run livereload

But that's pretty messy too IMO.

If you want this sort of thing, consider using gulp.