kentcdodds/babel-plugin-preval

How to force recompile?

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#19 opened on Jul 16, 2017

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Description

  • babel-plugin-preval version: 1.4.1
  • node version: 8.1.3
  • npm (or yarn) version: npm 5.2.0

Relevant code or config

const result = preval`
  const fs = require('fs');
  const path = require('path');
  const content = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'file.md'));
  module.exports = content.toString();
`;

console.log(result);

What you did: I ran the code above, to export contents of file.md.

What happened: when I modify file.md the result of preval didn't change when I tried to compile it again. Maybe I'm missing something?

Reproduction repository: demo

Problem description: preval probably doesn't see the reason to recompile because its tagged template literal didn't change.

Suggested solution: I don't know. 😅

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Research direction
Investigate how the plugin caches results based on the template literal string and determine if it watches or invalidates cache when referenced files change. Look for cache invalidation logic in the source code and consider adding file dependency tracking.
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javascripttypescriptnodejs
Domain
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