Fix CLI not watching atomically renamed files

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Sort tags before classes when `@applying` a selector with joined classes ([#9107](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/9107))
 - Remove invalid `outline-hidden` utility ([#9147](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/9147))
 - Honor the `hidden` attribute on elements in preflight ([#9174](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/9174))
+- Don't stop watching atomically renamed files ([#9173](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/9173))
 
 ## [3.1.8] - 2022-08-05
 

src/cli.js

@@ -843,6 +843,11 @@ async function build() {
     }
 
     watcher = chokidar.watch([...contextDependencies, ...extractFileGlobs(config)], {
+      // Force checking for atomic writes in all situations
+      // This causes chokidar to wait up to 100ms for a file to re-added after it's been unlinked
+      // This only works when watching directories though
+      atomic: true,
+
       usePolling: shouldPoll,
       interval: shouldPoll ? pollInterval : undefined,
       ignoreInitial: true,
@@ -855,6 +860,7 @@ async function build() {
     })
 
     let chain = Promise.resolve()
+    let pendingRebuilds = new Set()
 
     watcher.on('change', async (file) => {
       if (contextDependencies.has(file)) {
@@ -885,6 +891,77 @@ async function build() {
       }
     })
 
+    /**
+     * When rapidly saving files atomically a couple of situations can happen:
+     * - The file is missing since the external program has deleted it by the time we've gotten around to reading it from the earlier save.
+     * - The file is being written to by the external program by the time we're going to read it and is thus treated as busy because a lock is held.
+     *
+     * To work around this we retry reading the file a handful of times with a delay between each attempt
+     *
+     * @param {string} path
+     * @param {number} tries
+     * @returns {string}
+     * @throws {Error} If the file is still missing or busy after the specified number of tries
+     */
+    async function readFileWithRetries(path, tries = 5) {
+      for (let n = 0; n < tries; n++) {
+        try {
+          return await fs.promises.readFile(path, 'utf8')
+        } catch (err) {
+          if (n < tries) {
+            if (err.code === 'ENOENT' || err.code === 'EBUSY') {
+              await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 10))
+
+              continue
+            }
+          }
+
+          throw err
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Restore watching any files that are "removed"
+    // This can happen when a file is pseudo-atomically replaced (a copy is created, overwritten, the old one is unlinked, and the new one is renamed)
+    // TODO: An an optimization we should allow removal when the config changes
+    watcher.on('unlink', (file) => watcher.add(file))
+
+    // Some applications such as Visual Studio (but not VS Code)
+    // will only fire a rename event for atomic writes and not a change event
+    // This is very likely a chokidar bug but it's one we need to work around
+    // We treat this as a change event and rebuild the CSS
+    watcher.on('raw', (evt, filePath, meta) => {
+      if (evt !== 'rename') {
+        return
+      }
+
+      filePath = path.resolve(meta.watchedPath, filePath)
+
+      // Skip since we've already queued a rebuild for this file that hasn't happened yet
+      if (pendingRebuilds.has(filePath)) {
+        return
+      }
+
+      pendingRebuilds.add(filePath)
+
+      chain = chain.then(async () => {
+        let content
+
+        try {
+          content = await readFileWithRetries(path.resolve(filePath))
+        } finally {
+          pendingRebuilds.delete(filePath)
+        }
+
+        changedContent.push({
+          content,
+          extension: path.extname(filePath).slice(1),
+        })
+
+        await rebuild(config)
+      })
+    })
+
     watcher.on('add', async (file) => {
       chain = chain.then(async () => {
         changedContent.push({