Skip recreation of index.html if it doesn't changed

[polRk]

Current behaviour 💣

restarting nodemon at each index.html updates, but the content does not change.

Expected behaviour ☀️

do not recreate file if content is not changed

Reproduction Example 👾

https://github.com/polRk/wds-proxy-bug

Environment 🖥

Node.js v12.18.4
darwin 20.6.0

7.21.1

@wds-proxy-bug/root@1.0.0 /Users/polrk/Developer/polrk/wds-proxy-bug
├─┬ @pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin@0.5.0-rc.5
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ babel-loader@8.2.2
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ clean-webpack-plugin@4.0.0-alpha.0
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ copy-webpack-plugin@9.0.1
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ css-minimizer-webpack-plugin@3.0.2
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ html-webpack-plugin@5.3.2
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ mini-css-extract-plugin@2.2.0
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ terser-webpack-plugin@5.1.4
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ thread-loader@3.0.4
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ webpack-cli@4.8.0
│ ├─┬ @webpack-cli/configtest@1.0.4
│ │ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
├─┬ webpack-dev-server@4.0.0
│ ├─┬ webpack-dev-middleware@5.0.0
│ │ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
│ └── webpack@5.51.1 deduped
└── webpack@5.51.1


@wds-proxy-bug/root@1.0.0 /Users/polrk/Developer/polrk/wds-proxy-bug
└── html-webpack-plugin@5.3.2

[polRk]

cache: true; - don't help

[jantimon]

this behavior was implemented on purpose as the clean-webpack-plugin removed files after each run

can you turn off file watching for your dist folder?

[polRk]

dist folder? I don't have dist folder

[alexander-akait]

Please remove clean-webpack-plugin and use output.clean

[stale]

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