Any chance it was fixed yet the ability to use a handler in a

sst.Function

for liveEditing that is located inside node_modules folder? Right now I have it working but since its not watching files in the nodemodules folder… I need to restart

sst start

each time. 😞

No we haven't supported this yet. Would a symlink work? Not sure if watchers work on those

maybe? not sure how I should set that up

It does not. I have never seen a hot reloader not ignore the node_modules folder before, I am assuming there is a reason related to performance.

@Derek Kershner even if you symlink?

yeah I had initially forgotton to ignore node_modules and people were having terrible performance on certain OS's

If you are gonna have to change all your imports to do your testing anyway, perhaps you should just copy and paste the handler rather than symlinking to a built JS version to save the need to build…but I dont see why it wouldnt work.

some OS watchers need you to watch every single file in ad directory and node modules can have a million files

but in reality, I would suggest just testing whatever this lib is in its home for the scenario you are painting outside its home. general advice, but I have no context.

You’re likely right. I’m still getting a handle on the best workflow