Webpack watcher cannot recover after a file is recreated

Hey there,

I’m getting the following error:

Failed to compile.

../teselagen-react-components/es/index.js
Module build failed: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/tnrich/Sites/teselagen-react-components/es/index.js'

when trying to build my locally-linked npm module, teselagen-react-components.

What happens is that the build process removes all the files first, and then re-adds them (I have no way to control this). CRA, will sometimes be okay with this, but maybe 1 out of 4 times when I’m rebuilding, I’ll get the above error. Even though I can go to the file, /Users/tnrich/Sites/teselagen-react-components/es/index.js and verify it really is there.

There seems to be no way to get CRA to believe that it is there once it has detected it is missing.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Thanks!

[Timer]

Fair enough. I’ll tag this as needing investigation by someone motivated, but I feel it’s definitely a webpack bug.

[gaearon]

I’ll close as it’s unlikely anything will happen to this here. I encourage you to file an upstream bug with webpack.