Files copied with CopyWebpackPlugin deleted in watch mode after first code modification

[Wyzix33]

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• I'm submitting a ...

  • bug report
  • feature request
  • support request

• What is the current behavior?
  After npm install i run

npm run watch

and after the first file change and browser reload all the images copied by CopyWebpackPlugin get deleted...
it seems that if i remove the new CleanWebpackPlugin(), from plugins it's ok, but CopyWebpackPlugin is not executed on code modifications...

I solved it for now by setting new CleanWebpackPlugin({ cleanStaleWebpackAssets: false }),
it's not ideal but i have to test some more...

• What is the expected behavior?

Images should all be recopied and available as they are before first modification

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • Version: 2.5.0
  • System / OS / Browser: [ Windows]
  • Language: [all | SASS | ES6/7 | ES5 ]

Thanks

[pnikolov]

@Wyzix33 thanks for the feedback, I will further investigate this behaviour and will update the configuration/documentation.

[pnikolov]

After a further research I found that the latest version of Clean Webpack Plugin has this side effect/bug - V2 dist folder content is deleted before webpack start building

It seems to be fixed but it is not released yet. So until an official release I've released a new version of the boilerplate to use v1.0.1 of the clean-webpack-plugin plugin instead of the latest v2.0.2.

Here is the latest release containing this change together with a couple of new updates - Release 2.6.0