Small-Watch

Small-Watch is webpack plugin for files watching and executing provided callback. It will be useful, when other watch methods is not working. It use a function fs.watchFile.

Get started

Run a command:

npm i small-watch --save-dev

Then init plugin, in plugins array, with your options.

const smallWatch = require('small-watch');
...
plugins: [
	...
	new smallWatch({
		//your options
	})
	...
]

Options

Fields of options object:

1. dir - directory of base catalog, default . (string)
2. files - files for watching default [] (array)
3. ignore - files for ignore, default [] (array)
4. callback - function, which will be called after file change. One argument - fileName, default empty func (func)

Examples

Usage with browser-sync-webpack-plugin

...
plugins: [
	...
	new smallWatch({
		dir: 'resources',
		files: ['views/*.php'],
		callback: file => {
			const bs = require('browser-sync').get('bs-webpack-plugin');
			bs.reload();
		}
	}),
	new BrowserSyncPlugin({
		host: 'localhost',
		port: 3000,
		proxy: 'http://localhost/'
	})
	...
]