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JavaScript developers stitch together watch builds and live previews

Developers using JavaScript build pipelines want changes to flow from source edits through a build to a refreshed preview, sometimes with a post-build task along the way. Reports across Bun, Vite, and Angular describe gaps in specific parts of that loop, leaving people to coordinate shell commands, scripts, and separate preview servers. Those workarounds can be awkward across shells and do not automatically provide every requested hook or live reload behavior.

For javaScript frontend developers with custom build pipelines. Mentioned from May 2019 to Mar 2024 on GitHub.

5 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.

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What people said

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  1. I agree, this functionality is very necessary, now it is impossible to run any build that should use plugins in watch mode
  2. I could do this with a separate build script in package.json, but that gets awkward when running the angular build in watch mode
    alexanderbird on GitHub (angular/angular-cli)May 2019Asked for a toolHas a workaround
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