Sometimes, we want to fix webpack –watch isn’t compiling changed files with JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to fix webpack –watch isn’t compiling changed files with JavaScript.
How to fix webpack –watch isn’t compiling changed files with JavaScript?
To fix webpack –watch isn’t compiling changed files with JavaScript, we can increase the number of watchers and ignore files that don’t have to be watched.
We run
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
to increase the number of watchers to 524288.
Also, in our Webpack config, we write
//...
module.exports = {
//...
watchOptions: {
poll: true,
ignored: /node_modules/,
},
//...
};
to ignore the /node_modules/ folder in the watch options so that Webpack doesn’t watch anything in the folder for changes.
Conclusion
To fix webpack –watch isn’t compiling changed files with JavaScript, we can increase the number of watchers and ignore files that don’t have to be watched.
