Broccoli Serve stuck in build loop

I’m new to Broccoli, so it’s possible I’ve done something wrong. Whenever I run broccoli serve, it endlessly loops over the build and does not allow anything to connect. It just reports the build time and slowest trees over and over again. I can’t even break out of it with an interrupt. I have to kill the process to stop it. Running broccoli build public works fine. I can load the static build and everything behaves as expected.

I’m using OSX 10.8.5, and I’ve tried this under Node 0.10 and 0.11 with the same result.

[joliss]

Being able to selectively grab files from the top-level directory without watching the entire project directory is on the radar. It would clearly be useful. The way Broccoli currently determines what to watch doesn’t allow for this - the API is too coarse - so we have to figure out the API for this before we can make it work.

As you pointed out, moving (or symlinking) files into subdirectories is a workaround in the meantime, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.

[stefanpenner]

Actually, broccoli 1.0 by default has moved the tmpdir out of the project root, which means by default this should already work more or less fine.

We should still bake in some auto-detection of this problem in to broccoli. But i’m tracking that here: https://github.com/broccolijs/broccoli/issues/94