Simple way to make an esbuild plugin that watches src directory recursively? about esbuild

[evanw]

No, this is not possible. If you want something like chokidar then you should use chokidar. The watch mode that's built into esbuild is designed specifically for only triggering a rebuild when esbuild's build inputs are changed.

You could try to hack this by making every file that you want to serve into a build input. For example, this will watch all .html and .svg files recursively (and copy them into the www folder, which is then served with watch mode):

esbuild ./src/**/*.html ./src/**/*.svg --loader:.html=copy --loader:.svg=copy --outdir=www --watch --serve

But that's not a general solution. I recommend using another more general dev server if you want a dev server without using esbuild's bundling features (or augmenting esbuild with something like chokidar).

[zaydek]

Gotcha. OK fair enough, thank you. Closing this.