Documentation: How to determine if a file needs to be re-compiled?

[waywardmonkeys]

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A quick note in the README about how electron-compile decides whether or not a file needs to be recompiled would be useful.

[anaisbetts]

Whether the file should be compiled is based on:

1. The compiler settings (i.e. if you change Babel options, we recompile your files)
2. The content of the file

Where this breaks down is, file formats like SCSS that allow imports - we don't invalidate the parent file when the child changes

[rkpatel33]

@paulcbetts Is there any way to force recompile of parent SCSS file on an app reload, or make it work with autoreload?

I have a style directory set up like below with imports into the main root app.scss file. Seems changes in a child SCSS file are not reflected in the GUI on reload because of your explanation above: we don't invalidate the parent file when the child changes.

Otherwise I suppose I could always just run a sass-watch separately but would love to get this all working through electron-compile.

Btw, this is an awesome project!