there is no npm-guess-what-file-it-is nonsense for the classpath, so you refer to the exact filename by default. I even regret allowing the .js to be optional

/Button/index.js would work

but note that you can get all the npm style behaviour if you do NOT use the classpath, which I do not recommend anyway

so instead you use the :js-package-dirs ["node_modules" "packages"] option and have all your components in say packages/your-components/Button/index.js

then your require will be (:require ["your-components/Button" ...])

this has the added benefit of not running your JS components through :advanced which will likely save you some externs trouble

That makes sense, thank you Thomas. I am writing components in JSX, so it goes through Babel. So in that case do you recommend just putting the output dir in :js-package-dirs?

see https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html#alt-node-modules

and yes, you put the output into packages/your-components or whichever name you prefer. important bit is that it must be a sub directory and that directory should contain a package.json. usually npm init -y in that dir is enough

so packages/your-components/package.json and NOT packages/package.json

basically you are replicating the structure of the node_modules folder, just with a "package" you are building yourself

Got that working, thanks again!

hmm, it appears that shadow-cljs does not pick up on changes to files in that dir. I can see out/Button/index.js changing but the shadow-cljs watch command does not, and even a Force compile does not pull in the new JS. Is this expected?

yes, this is treated like node_modules. so only package.json is watched. if you make your babel build touch package.json it should work

not a clue 😛 there is no extra option if you are looking for one

Ok. I will continue hitting refresh like an absolute animal. 🙈

For context: I have some CSS that I use across different codebases and I have symlinked to it.

only option that is set is this one https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs/blob/8a93b43b43f4242b6f5f0406171155f575648860/src/main/shadow/util/FileWatcher.java#L77

allOf thus includes the only option, which would be FOLLOW_LINKS

I suspect that it just treats the symlink as its own file, and since that doesn't change it doesn't trigger

Ah ok I see.

might be better if you symlink the dir, not the file?

Let me test that.

Touching the symlink didn't work. It's being included from a different stylesheet like this:

@import url("dopeloop.css");

I'll see if I can simplify this setup anyway.

no import is not followed

only actual link tags

Ah ha that must be it then, thanks. 👍

Just a quick follow up - I fixed this by using a directory symlink instead of a file symlink as you suggested.