how can I prevent onFirstSuccess process from terminating on fist changed file? about tsc-watch HOT 9 CLOSED

I wouldn't recommend using tsc-wach along with webpack. tsc-watch was intended for cases where you want to restart something, like your nodejs server or a test suite.

Webpack is able to listen to new files and rebuild using typescript (I'm using awesome-typescript-loader). Using Webpack and an external compiler might cause webpack to refresh several times or even "miss" some changes, as compilation might output several files...

Do you have other reasons to "run-once" after a successful compilation?

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generally speaking, chaining hot-reloading services (while avoiding the initial reload after first compilation) is the use case.

specifically, I find webpack's ts loaders lacking in some aspects and would like to manage the build chain myself. benefits are:

1. transpilation cache in plain FS format, ready for publish
2. multi-process dev server, taking advantage of more cores for cpu-heavy chores such as transpilation and bundling
3. simpler tools, less edge-case bugs (for instance, I don't use hard-source-webpack-plugin or happypack)

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In your case (Specific use case), I would recommend using the library an not the command line tool.
This way, you can listen to events, and run your own "custom" code:

const watch = require('tsc-watch/client');
watch.on('first_success', () => {
  watch.kill();
});

WDYT?

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that's the way to get it done with the current CLI, sure.
but what about a onFirstSuccessTillExit param?

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I don't think that this is a public need, If we get some +1s on that I will consider it. But as it is possible with the current implementation (Without adding new feature) I'd rather keep it simple for the general public.

You can always fork 😉

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Gr8, I see that you forked and implemented it on your own version.

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I'm happy to say that as of version 2.0.0 the onFirstSuccess will not get killed.

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The version 2.0.0 is not published on NPM. Was it intentional?

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@iagomelanias , you are right.
I just published version 2.1.2 as the latest.

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