allow watching of the node_modules folder

[chris-kruining]

I am developing a local components library which I want to use in my remix project.

However every time I make a change and recompile my lib I have to kill remix and restart it in order for it to pick up the changes to the lib.

I would therefor like to have an option to also watch for changes in the node_modules folder.

[kiliman]

You can use nodemon to watch the node_modules folder and restart.

If you're using Express, simply replace the call to node server.js with nodemon --watch node_modules server.js

If you're using Remix App Server, you'll need to explicitly call the remix cli script

nodemon --watch node_modules node_modules/@remix-run/dev/cli.js dev

[chris-kruining]

how would this translate when using cross-env in the script?:

"dev": "cross-env PORT=3000 REMIX_DEV_SERVER_WS_PORT=8002 NODE_ENV=development remix dev",

[chris-kruining]

I got it running with

"dev": "cross-env PORT=3000 REMIX_DEV_SERVER_WS_PORT=8002 NODE_ENV=development nodemon --watch ./node_modules --exec ./node_modules/.bin/remix dev",

but it is not picking up my changes though

[kiliman]

So is nodemon restarting when you change your file?

[chris-kruining]

no it isn't

[kiliman]

You might be better off switching to the Express adapter and managing your own server instead of the built-in one.

[Esarhaddon]

For anyone else in a similar situation that comes across this while googling, the watchPaths option in remix.config.js solves this problem nicely for me, e.g. watchPaths: ["./node-modules/my-dev-package"].