From 5e2aac18a1327f445f10e37e6d47ef0d27637636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob <illusionalsagacity@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:55:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: update vite + nextjs config to ignore rescript build
 artifacts

---
 templates/rescript-template-nextjs/next.config.mjs | 6 ++++++
 templates/rescript-template-vite/vite.config.js    | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/templates/rescript-template-nextjs/next.config.mjs b/templates/rescript-template-nextjs/next.config.mjs
index 48127bb..2cff4ac 100644
--- a/templates/rescript-template-nextjs/next.config.mjs
+++ b/templates/rescript-template-nextjs/next.config.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import fs from "fs";
+import path from "path";
 
 const rescript = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./rescript.json"));
 const transpileModules = ["rescript"].concat(rescript["bs-dependencies"]);
@@ -19,6 +20,11 @@ const config = {
         fs: false,
         path: false,
       };
+      config.watchOptions = {
+        ...config.watchOptions,
+        // We ignore ReScript build artifacts to avoid unnecessarily triggering HMR on incremental compilation
+        ignored: ["**/lib/bs/**", "**/lib/ocaml/**", "**/lib/rescript.lock"],
+      };
     }
 
     // We need this additional rule to make sure that mjs files are
diff --git a/templates/rescript-template-vite/vite.config.js b/templates/rescript-template-vite/vite.config.js
index 9278745..e5ae1d8 100644
--- a/templates/rescript-template-vite/vite.config.js
+++ b/templates/rescript-template-vite/vite.config.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { defineConfig } from "vite";
 import react from "@vitejs/plugin-react";
-import tailwindcss from '@tailwindcss/vite';
+import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite";
 
 // https://vitejs.dev/config/
 export default defineConfig({
@@ -10,4 +10,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
       include: ["**/*.res.mjs"],
     }),
   ],
+  server: {
+    watch: {
+      // We ignore ReScript build artifacts to avoid unnecessarily triggering HMR on incremental compilation
+      ignored: ["**/lib/bs/**", "**/lib/ocaml/**", "**/lib/rescript.lock"],
+    },
+  },
 });