Watching files outside of project directory

[Flamenco]

Is there a way to watch files outside of the project directory when building BEX project.

I understand that refreshing the browser is needed. My is issue is that I use a library on my machine outside the project directory, and the filewatcher will not rebuild when its source files change. I need to kill and restart the project every time a file changes, then reload the browser after 10-20 seconds.

I am using Vite, and there is no way I can see in the config to add additional paths either.

[stefanvanherwijnen]

vitejs/vite#14423 (comment)

[Flamenco]

I found a workaround for this, as after research it seems the required functionality is not available via Vite or in turn chokidar, due to the way Quasar wraps those libraries.

Install nodemon

yarn add -D nodemon

Then start Quasar with nodemon, making sure to add the desired watch directories and files, and also add desired extensions (vue files are not watched by default)

"scripts": {
  "dev": "nodemon --watch ../dir1 --watch ../dir2 --ext vue,js,ts --exec quasar dev -m bex"
}

You MUST either add --watch directories, or --exclude ./ to prevent an end endless restart cycle.

This is not a hot-reload for the watch directories, but is still hot-reloaded for the project directory, and is much better than ctrl-c over and over.