Build plugin in watch mode

[haskelcurry]

Hi! First of all, thanks for your brilliant research and solution!
My question is about the "dev" (debug) mode. How do you guys do it?
Are you rebuilding the plugin with AOT every time you change something in the code?
I'd like to at least have the plugins to rebuild on code change automatically, but when I add --watch to build:plugin1, it goes into forever loop...
Any ideas on how to fix that?
Thank you! 🙏

[piyushmanurkar]

Any solution for this?

[jhasenfuss]

Hi,
in case you haven't found a solution yet. This is my simple solution:
If you comment out this line, the main.ts no longer gets cleared.

   return super.run(builderConfig).pipe(
      tap(() => {
        // clear entry point so our main.ts is always empty
        // this.patchEntryPoint(''); <--------
      })
    );

run: .\builders>tsc --project tsconfig.builders.json

But this will only work, if you run one plugin.
If you need two or more, you can copy the project-configuration in the angular.json file and adjust the paths to the main.ts files.