fastify/fastify-cli

Only watch specified directory (--watch CLI param)

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#787 opened on Dec 21, 2024

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🚀 Feature Proposal

Allow a directory (or list of directories) to be passed into the --watch param

Motivation

In my project, I have a small API subfolder. When I turn on --watch, it is monitoring my entire project root for changes, which leads to resets constantly.

Example

Right now the only solution is to do something like this:

fastify start --watch --ignore-watch '.git node_modules out .next content public scripts utils styles pages config compontents' --log-level info --pretty-logs --port ${API_PORT:-4321} api/server.js

I would rather do this:

fastify start --watch api --log-level info --pretty-logs --port ${API_PORT:-4321} api/server.js

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Research direction
Examine the current watch implementation in the CLI source, likely in a command handler using chokidar or fs.watch. Identify where the watched paths are defined and modify the argument parsing to accept an optional directory parameter, then pass it to the watcher.
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javascriptnodejs
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clibackend
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