JavaScript/CoffeeScript not triggering Jekyll to rebuild when changed

[tombell]

When editing SCSS files, Jekyll notices these changes and rebuilds. However when editing JS/CS, Jekyll doesn't rebuild.

I don't know if this is an issue with jekyll or jekyll-assets.

[ixti]

Can you provide your _config.yml and files tree related to your issue?

[tombell]

# rendering markdown
markdown: redcarpet
redcarpet:
  extensions: [smart, autolink]

# syntax highlighting
highlighter: 'pygments'

exclude: [ 'bin', 'Gemfile', 'Gemfile.lock', 'README.md', 'script', 's3_website.yml' ]
gems: ['jekyll-assets', 'jekyll-redirect-from']

# site metadata
name: redacted
url: https://redacted.com

# assets
assets:
  js_compressor:
  css_compressor:

# categories
category_archive:
  path: '/blog/category'
  paginate: 5
  paginate_path: 'blog/category/:category/page:num'

# pagination
paginate: 5
paginate_path: "blog/page:num"

# collections
collections:
  jobs:
    output: true
    permalink: /jobs/position/:path/
  support_articles:
    output: true
    permalink: /support/:title/

# disqus comments
disqus_shortname: 'redacted'

• _assets
  • javascripts
    • vendor/*.js
    • *.js.coffee
    • app.coffee
  • stylesheets
    • vendor/*.css
    • *.scss

[ixti]

What jekyll version are you using? Because it works ok for me on 2.1.1.

[tombell]

jekyll 2.4.0

[jameskerr]

I am also having this problem.

[peplin]

Here's a "me too" - anything I can provide to help debug this?

[ixti]

I think I know where this bug might come from - I just need to recheck.

[peplin]

If you could describe what you think might be happening, I might be able to help debug. Thanks!

[peplin]

I'm still having this issue with v1.0.0.pre.alpha1.

[envygeeks]

Could this have been a Jekyll 2.4 problems? AFAIW it would be Jekyll that triggers the rebuild, unless there was a bad mtime cache (which was the cause of a lot of other problems when it came to importing assets independent of sprockets through SASS) which meant that even if there was a change detected a rebuild of the asset was never done. We resolved this in HEAD (2.0.0) by switching to a digested cache and using Sprockets 3 file cache so we could always pull a fresh asset with find_asset and redigest against the cache.

/cc @parkr

In Jekyll3 we have no problems with jekyll-assets/HEAD (be catious in using it, it's not fully compatible with 1.0.0 yet) on the dozen or so sites I currently maintain.

[parkr]

Jekyll does trigger the rebuild via jekyll-watch. It is instructed to listen to everything, excepting things in your exclude configuration directive. Do the CS files contain any of the items in exclude, such as script (based on above)? For example, _assets/coffeescript/main.coffee will be ignored because exclude's are turned into a global /regexp/.

[envygeeks]

By triggering the rebuild I mean once Jekyll rebuilds itself we are triggered through that in 1.0.0 and in 2.0.0 we hook into post and pre hooks to get triggered.

[envygeeks]

This has been fixed for a while AFAIW, closing this out of this milestone, if it's not the case on 2.0.0 then please add a message on this ticket and I'll investigate the regression.