Error Messages on Windows

[manngo]

I successfully use this package on Macintosh, and find it to be a real help. However, on Windows, I get a JavaScript error. Not one, but very many:

Uncaught Exception:
Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, watch 'G:\'
	at FSWatcher.start …

Uncaught Exception:
Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, watch 'G:\content'
	at FSWatcher.start …

My project folder is mapped to G:\ and I get a separate message for the root and for every file & folder inside it, which is tedious.

The problem disappears when I comment out the line:

require('electron-reload')(__dirname);

I am running WIndows 10 in a virtual machine (VirtualBox). The project folder is one which has been shared from my Mac. I test it using npm start.

I am new to Electron development, so I have no idea whether I’m doing something improperly.

[yan-foto]

This is most probably a bug with chokidar, the only dependency of this project. You could try to use chokidar on its own on windows and see what happens.

[manngo]

I ran the following code from cokidar’s site:

const chokidar = require('chokidar');
chokidar.watch('.', {ignored: /(^|[\/\\])\../}).on('all', (event, path) => {
	console.log(event, path);
});

Certainly it gives me the same errors.

Does that mean I can’t use it on Windows?

For now, I am running the followng:

if(DEVELOPMENT && process.platform == 'darwin') require('electron-reload')(__dirname);

[yan-foto]

Sorry, I don't know why it doesn't work. It may also be caused by a misconfiguration of your virtual machine.