vite-plugin-dependency-watcher

Allows watching for changes in dependencies and reload the browser when they change. it also resets the cache for the changed dependencies.
this plugin is only useful in development mode for watching certain dependencies and reloading the browser on file changes.

Install

npm i -D vite-plugin-dependency-watcher

Usage

import dependencyWatcher from 'vite-plugin-dependency-watcher'

export default {
  plugins: [
    dependencyWatcher({
      // package paths
      [path.resolve(
          process.cwd(),
          'node_modules/package-name'
        ),
        ...
        ],
      // package names
        ['package-name',...]
    })
  ]
}

Note: if the dependency you want to watch has a nested CJS dependency, you need to add the nested dependency to optimizeDeps.include in vite config file. example from Vite docs:

export default defineConfig({
  optimizeDeps: {
    include: ["esm-dep > cjs-dep"],
  },
});

API

dependencyWatcher(
  // Array of package paths
  packagePaths: string[],
  // Array of package names
  packageNames: string[],
)

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/kasra-r77/vite-plugin-dependency-watcher