How to watch arbitrary files?

[danikaze]

My use case: using react-i18next + i18next-hmr and having a list of .json files to provide translations.
i18next-hmr seems to work well with regular vite, but not with electron-vite. Usually there's no need to change anything... but I even tried adding

build: {
  watch: {
    include: 'resources/locales/**/*.json,
  }
}

It doesn't work.
Which is kind of weird because usually with this config, you would be overriding any watched files... which leads me to think that electron-vite might be setting and overriding the list of watched files?

Could it work appending the provided matched ones?

Maybe (probably) I'm wrong, but I'd welcome any hint to make this work :)

Btw, there's a reproducible repo on https://github.com/danikaze/electron-tsx-app/tree/i18n (branch i18n)

Just running the app (npm run dev) and clicking in the yellowish button to render the <TestApp> should be enough.