pipe-extra-data.js

// piping code into this script
// like echo "alert('hi')" |./this-script
//
// products 1 ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@alert('hi')
//
var stdin = process.openStdin(),
    code = ''

stdin.setEncoding('utf8')
stdin.on("data",function(chunk){
  code+=chunk
})

stdin.on("end",function(){
  assets.store('asset-name',code)
})


/* this is what the store function looks like */

module.exports.store = function(asset,content){
  var asset_path = path.join(watcher.assets_directory(),"reloaded.assets")
  exec("mkdir -p " + asset_path)

  fs.open( path.join(asset_path,asset),'a+',0666,function(err,fd){
    fs.write(fd,content,content.length,0,0,function(err){
      if(err){
        throw(err) 
      }
    }) 
  })
}