--watch not watching imported dependencies outside of root dir

[spiderworm]

• project has src/ dir
• parallel to src/, project has deps in node_modules/
  • some deps include .scss files I want to watch for changes as well (linked dependencies)
• some .scss files in src/ dir @import other .scss files from node_modules/
• making changes to .scss files in src/ triggers rebuild... but changes to .scss files in node_modules/ does not. I have to restart the process to see those updates

Is there a way to watch the .sass files imported from node_modules/ as well so that changes to those files will trigger a rebuild? I am guessing this would be done by having the option to disable the cache of files imported from outside the watched dir?

[spiderworm]

I worked around this for now by created a script that force restarts the node-sass-chokidar process every second to force it to get it to keep rebuilding the node_modules/ .scss files, but this is a silly thing to do and I don't want to do it any longer than I have to.

[michaelwayman]

I am not able to reproduce this. When I have something like this

package.json

...
  "scripts": {
    "watchcss": "node-sass-chokidar --include-path ./node_modules ./src -o ./src --watch"
  },

and

src/app.scss

@import "bootstrap/scss/bootstrap.scss";

a {
    color: red;
}

and npm run watchcss, I get => changed: /Users/wayman/projects/test-node-chokidar/src/app.scss

and then I go to node_modules/ bootstrap/scss/ and start making changes to the scss files in there, I get => changed: /Users/wayman/projects/test-node-chokidar/src/app.scss again and the the changes I made to bootstrap were reflected in app.css

So basically I am unable to reproduce. I am closing this issue until someone else can verify this, or you can upload a project demonstrating the alleged issue.