build-prod task silently kills watch task

[jennifer-shehane]

I've been noticing that every now and then my watch task would stop watching, but not give any notice that it wasn't watching. So I'd have to restart the process to get it to watch again.

I finally pinned down when this happens. So, I have by watch task running in one terminal tab and when I would run build-prod to deploy some of the changes in another terminal tab, the watch would stop as explained above.

I feel like this didn't use to happen before version 5.6.0, but I haven't verified this.

[chrisbreiding]

build-prod can't be run when watch is running if the prodDir is set to be the same as the devDir. build-prod ends up overwriting the files in the dist directory that watch uses. You either need to stop the watch task when running build-prod or set the devDir and prodDir to be different.

I suppose I could fail with an error in this circumstance, if you try to run build-prod while running watch and the directories are set to be the same.

[jennifer-shehane]

Yeah, an error would be helpful for sure!