Watch does work only for test files, does not refresh for project files

[tomitrescak]

I have this strange issue, when mocha reloads only when I update a "test" file. When I update a project file (SUT) the mocha keeps the original version somehow cached. I tried different approaches and nothing works. Any ideas?

Here is how I run it:

mocha --colors --watch imports/test/browser.js imports/**/tests/**/*.js* --compilers js:babel-core/register

[boneskull]

probably because babel gives mocha a transpiled file, and mocha watches the transpiled file instead of the source file. try it with --require babel-register instead of --compilers; if that doesn't help you, you'll need to have some other tool help you do this.

[boneskull]

at any rate, #1780 is a thing, and I'd rather not build on top of it in its current state, and instead extract the functionality into a separate module.

[boneskull]

I heard npm-watch is a thing

[tomitrescak]

@boneskull thanks for your comment. I solved it along those lines. I used the watch-run lib and here is my solution extracted from package.json

scripts: {
      "test": "mocha --colors imports/**/tests/**/*.js* --require babel-register",
      "test-watch": "watch-run -i -p 'imports/**/tests/**/*.js*,imports/ui/*.jsx' npm run test"
}

run it as

npm run test-watch