Multiple watch folders?

[norbert-codes]

How is it possible to specify more than one (by default /src) watch folder for the dev server (npm start)?

The reason is that I'm developing an app, which has some npm dependencies, which I'm also developing, and they are scoped/private packages, so will reside in something like /node_modules/@scope/, so watching this folder and linking those dependencies there would be awesome.
Is it possible somehow? (Of course /src needs to be watched too.)

npm link would solve the issue ofc., but has a long and troubled history with webpack, because of symlinks, so my current solution is that I copy the dependencies on change with wml to the apps node_modules folder, but it won't cause a live reload on the dev server.

Thanks for the answer!

[lukeed]

I don't think it's possible to watch multiple "src"-type directories in Webpack -- at least, not without running multiple compilers.

You can continue to play with symlinks, as you've suggested, or you can play with the watchOptions. Our included config ignores all node_modules by default for apparent reasons.

Going to close, but I hope that helped in some way 😬 Sorry for the delay -- this was just brought to my attention. 🌴

[norbert-codes]

Sorry for the delay -- this was just brought to my attention. 🌴

Thanks anyway! 🎉

In the meanwhile started to experiment with a yarn-workspaces based monorepo, and it seems to solve a lot of problems with symlinks so far.

[lukeed]

Cool! I'll look into it sometime.