CoffeeScript - compile all .coffee files in current directory and all sub-directories

Question

What is the easiest way to compile all .coffee files in the current directory and all sub-directories?

Answer 1

If you are using *nix systems:

find -name "*.coffee" -exec coffee -c {} \;

and you may also consider using Guard: https://github.com/guard/guard-coffeescript

Answer 2

you can do so with the integrated coffee shell tool:

coffee --output lib --compile src

compiles a directory tree of .coffee files in src into a parallel tree of .js files in lib. Check http://coffeescript.org/#usage for more details

Answer 3

coffee -c .

Thanks @TrevorBurnham

Answer 4

coffee --watch --compile .

or

coffee -wc .

Either of these commands will run forever, watching for *.coffee files in the current directory, and compiling those *.coffee files into *.js JavaScript files whenever the *.coffee files are changed.

If you want the *.js files to be generated into some other directory, just add --output or -o, like this:

coffee --watch --output lib --compile src

or

coffee -w -o lib -c src