Rollup watch has a fatal error on first run if encounters error

[mhkeller]

Repro here: https://github.com/mhkeller/rollup-fatal-watch

If I introduce a syntax error on a file, rollup will give me a nice error and once I've fixed it, rebuild.

If I try to run rollup -w on a file that has that same syntax error, the watch exits. I have to fix the error and then run npm run build again.

It would be nicer if the behavior were the same between first run and during a build.

Perhaps related to #1563

[aubergene]

It looks like this is the same as #1442 which is marked as wontfix. I guess it would possible to have a list of files such as the config and input file(s) and to always watch them, and only add dependencies when a build is succesful. I had a quick brose of the code but couldn't work out where this might be added.

[mhkeller]

Good searching @aubergene. ya it seems that there is enough information gathered in the first run to try up to that point of failure. But there is certainly much I don't understand about what would make that possible or not ideal.

[shellscape]

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[mhkeller]

Hi @shellscape. I think this issue would be great to fix. Please consider re-opening.

[shellscape]

@mhkeller We're fast approaching the 2 year mark since it was last discussed, so I'm not sure there's a large demand here. Would you be willing to lead the effort? We're spread pretty thin so we would appreciate the help.

[mhkeller]

@shellscape I made a PR for this including a test. If you can take a look, that would be great #3081