Renaming files isn't picked up by build system

[ffxsam]

I just did some conventional refactoring and renamed a bunch of .vue files. For some reason, the build system still wants to reference the old names that no longer exist. Even if I remove .meteor/local/build, it still uses the wrong filenames!

I had to actually go into the file in question, make some arbitrary change, then save it, causing it to rebuild.

Is webpack maybe not set up properly? It's rebuilding on file modifications but not file renames.

[ffxsam]

Side note: if I add something like this to the .vue file:

// random comment to modify the file

and save, the app builds fine. If I remove that comment above and save, then it goes back to complaining about trying to import a file that doesn't exist.

[DamienFriot]

+1

[mizzao]

I'm seeing this as well. I renamed a file from DataView.vue to DataViewer.vue, and the rebuild shows the following error:

I'd been seeing this kind of error for a while and thought I was going crazy since I couldn't even git grep for the file it was looking for. Somehow it is remembering the old filenames across a rename.

@ffxsam's post gives a clue as to the nature of the error: it's probably hashing the contents of files and assuming their name doesn't change. You can rename a file multiple times and it'll still pick up the original name as long as the contents go back to what they were before. This is really confusing because one way to triage an error is to remove code until you have the smallest piece that reproduces it; however, this bug basically guarantees you'll tear your hair out trying to do that.

If you could point out the package that's likely to be causing this, I'd be happy to try and debug.

[mizzao]

Seems like this has something to do with Meteor's caching-compiler, and other packages providing a build system have run into the same problem: Urigo/angular-meteor#888.

One possible fix: Urigo/angular-meteor#889

Pretty much all of these need to be changed.

[mizzao]

I submitted #278 which (as far as I can tell) fixes this bug.

BTW, as a workaround you can clear .meteor/local/plugin-cache/akryum_vue-component/ when you rename a file.