Laravel Elixir - Execute cmd on watch update

Question

I'm trying to create an easy workflow for package development and was hoping someone could pint me in the right direction. In short, once a css file has been updated I want to be able to run a command (php artisan vendor:publish --force) to automatically publish the files.

Can this be done with Elixir and if so could anyone point me in the right direction?

regards

Answer 1

if anyone is looking, this works nicely:

var gulp = require("gulp");
var shell = require("gulp-shell");
var elixir = require("laravel-elixir");

elixir.extend("publish", function() {
    var baseDir = this.assetsDir;
    gulp.task("publish_assets", function() {
        gulp.src("").pipe( shell( [
            "php ../../../artisan vendor:publish --force",
            "cd ../../../ ; gulp"
        ]));
    });
    this.registerWatcher("publish_assets", [
        baseDir + '**/*.scss',
        baseDir + '**/*.js'
    ]);
    return this.queueTask("publish_assets");
});