Replace file

Question

Replace file

Akryum opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

I don't see a way to replace a file with new content (for example, to hot reload modules). Is it currently possible?
Maybe we could have an option like forceReplace?

Ben Newman · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 29 2016 22:20:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Here's the line where we ignore new contents for files that have already been installed.

I'm definitely interested in this idea, and my use case is the same as yours (hot module replacement). I wonder what minimal hooks we could support to enable hot module replacement, so that we don't have to implement that logic in this package. At minimum, I think we should reuse the module object from the previous version of the module.

Guillaume Chau · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 29 2016 22:22:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

What I'm trying to do is replace an installed file with meteorInstall. Currently, my workaround is to change the filename with a timestamp, but this leads to unexpected side effects.

Alex Sosnovskiy · Answer 3 · Wed Sep 28 2022 02:54:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@benjamn I known that it is about 3 years old topic. But maybe you have any ideas how to do it properly? Any idea about hooks?