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@tuan231195
tuan231195
opened on Mar 22, 2020

TypeScript Version: : 3.9.0-dev.20200322, 3.8.3

Search Terms: build, project references, watch mode

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  • Run project in build and watch mode: tsc -b -w -v
  • Adding a new file to one of the project references. The new file is not detected by the watch process and hence not compiled
  • Rename an existing file in the project. The compilation fails with error:
    File 'filename' not found.

Expected behavior:

New files and renamed files are compiled correctly

Actual behavior:

New files were not compiled. Renamed files caused the compilation to fail

Playground Link: https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh/project-references-demo

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  1. Ryan Cavanaugh (RyanCavanaugh)
    added
    Needs InvestigationThis issue needs a team member to investigate its status.
    on Mar 22, 2020
  2. Ryan Cavanaugh (RyanCavanaugh)
    assigned
    Sheetal Nandi (sheetalkamat)
    on Mar 22, 2020

  3. sheetalkamat commented on Mar 23, 2020

    @sheetalkamat
    Sheetal Nandi (sheetalkamat)
    on Mar 23, 2020
    Member

    This does not repro as you mentioned. We would need detail steps to repro the issue along with sample code to see if something is wrong.

    
c:\temp\project-references-demo>node c:\TypeScript\built\local\tsc.js -b -v -w --preserveWatchOutput --listFiles --listEmittedFiles
[1:21:26 PM] Starting compilation in watch mode...

[1:21:26 PM] Projects in this build:
    * core/tsconfig.json
    * animals/tsconfig.json
    * zoo/tsconfig.json
    * tsconfig.json

[1:21:26 PM] Project 'core/tsconfig.json' is out of date because output file 'lib/core/utilities.js' does not exist

[1:21:26 PM] Building project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/core/tsconfig.json'...

TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/core/utilities.js
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/core/utilities.d.ts
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/core/tsconfig.tsbuildinfo
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.es5.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.webworker.importscripts.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.scripthost.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/core/utilities.ts
[1:21:27 PM] Project 'animals/tsconfig.json' is out of date because output file 'lib/animals/animal.js' does not exist

[1:21:27 PM] Building project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/tsconfig.json'...

TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/animal.js
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/animal.d.ts
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/index.js
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/index.d.ts
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/dog.js
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/dog.d.ts
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/tsconfig.tsbuildinfo
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.es5.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.webworker.importscripts.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.scripthost.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/animal.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/index.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/core/utilities.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/dog.ts
[1:21:28 PM] Project 'zoo/tsconfig.json' is out of date because output file 'lib/zoo/zoo.js' does not exist

[1:21:28 PM] Building project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/zoo/tsconfig.json'...

TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/zoo/zoo.js
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/zoo/zoo.d.ts
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/zoo/tsconfig.tsbuildinfo
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.es5.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.webworker.importscripts.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.scripthost.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/animal.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/dog.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/index.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/zoo/zoo.ts
[1:21:29 PM] Found 0 errors. Watching for file changes.

[1:21:43 PM] File change detected. Starting incremental compilation...

[1:21:43 PM] Project 'animals/tsconfig.json' is out of date because oldest output 'lib/animals/animal.js' is older than newest input 'core'

[1:21:43 PM] Building project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/tsconfig.json'...

TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/newfile.js
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/newfile.d.ts
TSFILE: c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/tsconfig.tsbuildinfo
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.es5.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.webworker.importscripts.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.scripthost.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/animal.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/index.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/core/utilities.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/dog.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/newfile.ts
[1:21:43 PM] Updating unchanged output timestamps of project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/tsconfig.json'...

[1:21:44 PM] Project 'zoo/tsconfig.json' is out of date because oldest output 'lib/zoo/zoo.js' is older than newest input 'animals/tsconfig.json'

[1:21:44 PM] Building project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/zoo/tsconfig.json'...

c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.es5.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.webworker.importscripts.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.scripthost.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/animal.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/dog.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/animals/index.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/zoo/zoo.ts
[1:21:44 PM] Updating unchanged output timestamps of project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/zoo/tsconfig.json'...

[1:21:44 PM] Found 0 errors. Watching for file changes.

[1:22:02 PM] File change detected. Starting incremental compilation...

[1:22:02 PM] Project 'animals/tsconfig.json' is out of date because oldest output 'lib/animals/animal.js' is older than newest input 'core'

[1:22:02 PM] Building project 'c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/tsconfig.json'...

animals/index.ts:4:32 - error TS2307: Cannot find module './dog' or its corresponding type declarations.

4 import { createDog, Dog } from './dog';
                                 ~~~~~~~

c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.es5.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.webworker.importscripts.d.ts
c:/TypeScript/built/local/lib.scripthost.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/animal.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/index.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/lib/core/utilities.d.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/dog2.ts
c:/temp/project-references-demo/animals/newfile.ts
[1:22:02 PM] Found 1 error. Watching for file changes.
  4. Sheetal Nandi (sheetalkamat)
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  7. dko-slapdash commented on Oct 31, 2022

    @dko-slapdash
    Dimitri (dko-slapdash)
    on Oct 31, 2022

    Sheetal Nandi (@sheetalkamat) Ryan Cavanaugh (@RyanCavanaugh)
    This issue has been with us for at least 2 years; we're waiting so much until it's resolved, but it doesn't hapen. I understand that it may be super-hard to repro in a sandbox, but still, attaching a screencast showing the effect of this bug hoping that it would help to hint, what's going on.

    Reproducible in BOTH VSCode editor (!!!) and in tsc --watch. I.e. it's not an artifact of our build system (which includes many components), it affects vanilla VSCode's TS server process running in noEmit mode too.

    Below is one screencast split into 3 videos (one after another).

    Configuration:

    1. slapdash-server-ingestion monorepo project is compiled with a separate tsc --watch process with incremental=true
    2. slapdash-server monorepo project (depends on the previous) is compiled with tsc --watch with emitDeclarationOnly=true and incremental=true

    Basically, on the videos, the files appeared in node_modules/slapdash-server-ingestion/dist/.../ are not picked up by the watching tsc in slapdash-server (node_modules/slapdash-server-ingestion is a lerna-symlink to packages/slapdash-server-ingestion).

    What I do there (in time order):

    1. I have several tsc --watch processes running, and then I check out a version from Git which has new TS files (dist/.../FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.ts) appeared in slapdash-server-ingestion monorepo project (compiled with a separate tsc --watch process).
    2. tsc --watch of slapdash-server-ingestion compiles the new files (FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.ts) into dist/ folder. But then, from within slapdash-server monorepo project (from within slapdash-server/.../FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.test.ts on the 1st video), the compilation result (dist/.../FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.d.ts) is not visible: e.g. VSCode red-underlines the file as missing (although it's there), and tsc --watch for slapdash-server doesn't see the file too.

    Now an interesting part

    1. Re-saving FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.test.ts (without modifying it) does NOT help. See the bottom of the 1st video which records the keystrokes. It doesn't help in both VSCode and in tsc --watch which compiles FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.test.ts.
    2. What's interesting is that, if I do a dummy change in import directive in FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.test.ts and then revert it, all without saving (video 2), it helps VSCode to find the file (but it obviously doesn't let tsc --watch unstuck). It looks like there is some cache in the watching process which is not refreshed even on a file change, and the only time when it's refreshed is when that particular import statement changes.
    3. Only when I do a dummy change in FactAllAclsOfAssetAre.test.ts in that import statement AND SAVE IT, then revert the change and save again, it unsticks tsc --watch for that file only.
    4. I have to repeat the same procedure (open a stuck file, apply a dummy change in import statement (not in any other parts of the code! exactly in that import statement!) to fully unstuck all of the files eventually (video 3).
    CleanShot.2022-10-30.at.17.43.26.mp4
    CleanShot.2022-10-30.at.17.44.28.mp4
    CleanShot.2022-10-30.at.17.55.04.mp4

  8. mayzenator commented on Feb 9, 2023

    @mayzenator
    May Zhong (mayzenator)
    on Feb 9, 2023

    hi! any updates on this thread? seeing the same issue

  9. adriana47 commented on Apr 7, 2023

    @adriana47
    adriana47
    on Apr 7, 2023

    Same issue, on webstorm. Changing tsconfig.json include/exclude patterns isn't helping. Editing and reverting the import statement is the only workaround so far, but not a fix. Can this be looked at please?

  10. aakash14goplani commented on Nov 26, 2023

    @aakash14goplani
    Aakash Goplani (aakash14goplani)
    on Nov 26, 2023

    Facing same issue with SvelteKit + Turbo Monorepo setup.

    There are two ways to reproduce this:

    1. Move file from one package to another.
    2. Rename file with change in case e.g. AakashFile to aakashFile

    Run the localhost now, it will forever load...

  11. RyanCavanaugh commented on Aug 8, 2024

    @RyanCavanaugh
    Ryan Cavanaugh (RyanCavanaugh)
    on Aug 8, 2024
    Member

    Hey folks, sorry we haven't been able to root-cause this with the information available. The only way we're going to be able to make progress here is with a repro we can run locally - for something like this, that generally means a cloneable repro. "Me too" or prose descriptions of what you're encountering are unfortunately not useful at all in helping us find a fix. Please log a new issue with a repro we can run locally if you're able to. Thanks!

  12. Ryan Cavanaugh (RyanCavanaugh)
    closed this as completedon Aug 8, 2024
  13. microsoft
    locked and limited conversation to collaborators on Aug 8, 2024
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