Changes only detected in Main.elm with cache option enabled

[opsb]

With the following config

    module: {
      loaders: [
        {
          test:    /\.elm$/,
          exclude: [/elm-stuff/, /node_modules/],
          loader:  'elm-webpack?cache=true'
        },

changes aren't detected in any elm files except Main.elm. If I remove the cache option then they're detected in all elm files.

(BTW the cache option is otherwise awesome, brought my build down from 60s to less than 3s!)

[heejongahn]

Isn't this expected behavior? Below is the quotation from the README:

If you add this, when using npm run watch, the loader will only load the dependencies at startup. This could be performance improvement, but know that new files won't be picked up and so won't be watched until you restart webpack.

[opsb]

hmm, I understood that to mean that elm-package dependencies were only loaded at startup but perhaps I've misunderstood.

Given that saving Main.elm will pick up changes in all files and still compile quickly (remember it's 1-3 secs vs 60 secs for my build) I'm not quite sure what's going on. I'm now running

fswatch -o src/ --include '*.elm' --exclude 'Main.elm' | xargs -n1 -I{} touch src/Main.elm

so that a rebuild is triggered when any elm file is updated. This way I get the fast rebuilds that the cache option seems to enable but with the same behaviour as when the cache option is disabled (there's perhaps a downside I'm not aware of yet).

[eeue56]

should be fixed in 4.0.0. please reopen if not

[yornaath]

I am experiencing this same issue. Even if i set cache to false.

[eeue56]

Did you set cwd?

[mblarsen]

I am experiencing this same issue. Even if i set cache to false.

Same here. I've tried with cwd set and not set. Why are you asking about cwd @eeue56 ? (trying to learn).