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Everlaw / nbts

NetBeans TypeScript editor plugin
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Recompile after external changes #35

Closed everflux closed 7 years ago

everflux commented 8 years ago

It would be great if the compilation could be triggered by external changes, especially

jeffrey-easyesi commented 8 years ago

It should already work, as long as the change happens while the project is open.

everflux commented 8 years ago

I had the files changed while NB was closed. Perhaps something like timestamp checking when a project is opened could be done? (Or compiling everything when project is opened to force consistency?)

everflux commented 8 years ago

If possible it would be great if similar to maven (or custom grunt) task functionality "clean" and "compile/build all" would be provided. In that case it is easy to recover from external changes that are not detected.

jeffrey-easyesi commented 7 years ago

In 2.1.4.1 I've added a "compile file" command to each .ts file's context menu. But TypeScript's language service API isn't suited for compiling a whole project, since it takes a single input file and writes all affected output files. So calling it on every file in the project is potentially very inefficient when output files are shared.

Compile-on-save is really a convenience for testing small changes and shouldn't be the main way of building a project.