WP Scripts: Make watch mode more resilient for developer errors #66752
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What?
Extracted from #66466 (comment):
Why?
This was useful in the watch mode when running
wp-scripts startas it allowed developers made mistakes during development. There would be an error message displayed in the terminal that should help to resolve the issue without running the same command again.How?
Testing Instructions
I created a custom block from the Gutenberg repository and put it in the watch mode with:
npx wp-create-block example-block --no-wp-scripts cd example-block npx ../node_modules/.bin/wp-scripts startI made an error in
block.jsonfile to ensure it errors. I was able to see the warning coming from webpack config and the error coming from the bundler for the usage of import inside the JS code forblock.json. The command continued to work and resumed to fully operational after I fixed the JSON file and saved it again.Some examples after the changes applied with this PR while webpack continues to run in the watch mode: