[!IMPORTANT] This package is ESM-only and must be used with ESM-compatible build configurations. For CommonJS support, please use version 3.x of this package.

Install

npm install webpack-watch-external-files-plugin --save-dev
# or
yarn add webpack-watch-external-files-plugin --dev

Usage

// webpack.config.js:

import WatchExternalFilesPlugin from 'webpack-watch-external-files-plugin';

export default {
  plugins: [
    new WatchExternalFilesPlugin({
      files: ['/path/**/*.js', '/path/tofile.txt', '!./src/**/*.json'],
    }),
  ],
};

Options

new WatchExternalFilesPlugin({
  files: [],
});

• files[list<string>] - a list of files or glob patterns