[Desktop - MacOS] Plugin dist sporadically freezes in cache

Description

Occasionally plugin dist ‘freezes’ in Electron cache of Headlamp.

Impact

Bad development experience, inability to see the changes in Headlamp runtime.

Environment and steps to reproduce

1. Set-up: Headlamp
2. Task: Observe the changes in runtime made to the plugin code
3. Action(s): a. Stop the running server b. Make change to the code, for example change console.log('headlamp-myplugin initialized'); to console.log('headlamp-myplugin initialized123123'); c. Run rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Headlamp/plugins/headlamp-myplugin/main.js; rm -rf dist/ d. Run npm start e. See that change isn’t displayed in Headlamp, i.e. in the console is logged headlamp-myplugin initialized instead of headlamp-myplugin initialized123123
4. Error: Can’t observe the changes even during hot reload

Workaround

Wiping the Electron cache of the Headlamp solved the issue: rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Headlamp/

[andrii-batiuk]

@joaquimrocha for a couple of days of usage of 0.8 version - the issue is not observed, so far. I’m doing Headlamp plugin development with my common behavioural patterns (like using hibernation, not shutting down npm serve or Headlamp etc.).

[illume]

Hi.

sorry, this was replaced by makeCustomResourceClass

• https://github.com/kinvolk/headlamp/pull/460
• example custom-resource plugin