Eleventy watcher ignores *unlink* events

[genemars]

I was wondering why 11ty does not implement watching of "unlink" events.
When files are deleted from input folder, Eleventy does nothing, not even trigger the browser refresh.
This looks like kind of a bug when deleting an Item that, for instance, is listed on a menu. The item appears to be still there and can also be opened.
The only way to update the page is to stop Eleventy, delete output folder, and restart it.
Watching/syncing of deleted files would be a nice feature to have, at least as a switchable configuration option.

[genemars]

I solved writing a separate watcher for passthroughCopyFiles

[davidvasandani]

@genemars could you share your fix? 🙏🏻

[genemars]

You can find the fix in my Eleventy-based web-starter.
In particular this is the code that does the trick.
The code is not reusable as-is since it takes care of other things as well, but should give an idea of how the fix works.

[groenroos]

For anyone arriving here from Google like I did, adding this behaviour to Eleventy natively is being tracked in #2798