reloading page after hotreloading css

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? bug report

What is the current behaviour? When only changing css in the project it first hotreloads the project, then hits a 404 and reloads the page

If the current behaviour is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

• run npm run dev
• change only css
• see it hotreload css
• instantly followed by the entire page reloading
• if you got “preserve log” enabled in the console you’ll see there was a 404

What is the expected behaviour? For it to only hotreload css

Please paste the results of preact info here.

Environment Info:

  System:
    OS: Windows 10
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.16.3 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    npm: 6.10.3 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Browsers:
    Edge: 44.18362.449.0
  npmPackages:
    preact: ^10.1.0 => 10.1.0
    preact-cli: ^3.0.0-rc.6 => 3.0.0-rc.6
    preact-compat: ^3.19.0 => 3.19.0
    preact-render-to-string: ^5.1.2 => 5.1.2
    preact-router: ^3.1.0 => 3.1.0

[prateekbh]

This is coming from --esm. For immediate fix please use ``–no-esm` with watch.

@developit @ForsakenHarmony is it ok if watch work without esm?

[prateekbh]

Sorry trying to carve time out for this one.