Support file renames / additions / deletions in --watch mode

[Bouke]

Building on Windows is... well slow. So we mostly run ember build with the --watch option. However in this mode, file renames / additions / deletions of typescript files are not being picked up, and we need to restart ember build. It would be very nice if this package would handle situations like these.

[chriskrycho]

@Bouke totally agreed (though in my experience it’s more that sometimes they’re picked up, which is even more frustrating!). I’m curious: can you try the WIP branch we have for invoking TS’s watch mode more carefully (PR #172) and see if it handles renames better? I think it may but I haven’t had looked at that specifically yet. Either way, can you please report the results on #172? That’d be super helpful.

[dfreeman]

Additions, and the adding part of renames, should work out of the box with #172, but tsc --watch doesn't currently clean up emitted files when the source is removed, unfortunately. Once #172 lands, we can probably layer on our own handling for that.

[chriskrycho]

I believe this was largely resolved by ember-cli-typescript v2 (many years ago now!), and while there are intermittent cache issues with Broccoli, they are are outside the remit of this project to resolve and we recommend people switch to using ember-cli-babel in apps and Rollup plugins in add-ons for building and glint for type checking regardless. Closing as “done”!