Temporary workaround for babel --watch failing after first change

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Temporary workaround for babel --watch failing after first change.

I did find the issue when starting The Complete React Web Developer Course course.

[suggestion] babel --watch consistently fails (happening only on Linux?)

How it works

Install node-watch

npm install node-watch

add an entry to npm script

"scripts": {"watch-it-until-babel-watch-fails": "node ./watch-it.js"},

run the script a

npm run watch-it-until-babel-watch-fails

run live-server as always (looks like it can not be included in the npm script).

Todo

• find out if and how it is possible to avoid double reload

watch-it.js

//https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-watch

const watch = require('node-watch');
const { exec } = require('child_process');

watch('src', { recursive: true }, function(evt, name) {
  console.log('%s changed.', name);
  //https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20643470/execute-a-command-line-binary-with-node-js
  exec('node_modules/.bin/babel  src/app.js --out-file=public/scripts/app.js --presets=env,react', (err, stdout, stderr) => {
  if (err) {
    // node couldn't execute the command
    return;
  }
  });
});