WebCompiler does not work with dotnet watch anymore if using .NET 8 SDK

[JustusGreiberORGADATA]

Hi,

I create this issue more to document the issue for others, rather than to ask for a fix:

Because of changes in .NET 8 SDK the dotnet watch mechanism can no longer run arbitrary commands:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-watch#arguments
dotnet/sdk#38340

This means dotnet watch tool webcompiler will secretly result in dotnet watch run tool webcompiler, which will start the current project with the arguments tool webcompiler instead of running webcompiler directly. I guess if you have setup the current project to run webcompiler on build it technically still kind of works, but certainly not as intended 😄.

[JustusGreiberORGADATA]

Oh I'm quite proud of myself, I found a dirty f-ing hack 🙃.

If you have setup webcompiler to run as part of a MSBuild Target, you can just watch that and it still kind of works.

dotnet watch build -t:CompileStaticAssets --no-restore

Probably not as fast, because of the MSBuild overhead, but at least it is not a full build 👍.

[stefanloerwald]

Thanks @JustusGreiberORGADATA. That workaround looks good enough for me. What a shame that running dotnet tools was dropped!

[mrgiff]

Oh I'm quite proud of myself, I found a dirty f-ing hack 🙃.

@JustusGreiberORGADATA - loving your dirty f-ing hack! 😊 Many thanks! 👍