Global data object not updating if using a JavaScript Data File

[navarrorc]

Using Windows 10 with nodejs v11.4.0.

I'm experiencing and odd behavior where the global object that represents the JavaScript data file is not updating when I make changes to the source javascript file. I'm running eleventy --serve and I have also tried eleventy --watch.

There's no issue if I use .json files, the global object updates as expected. The problem is only happening when using .js files that use module.exports

Here is an example of a .js file that does not update when I add more values to the array.

users.js
module.exports = ["user1", "user2"];

Please advise. Thank you.

[jevets]

Tried it as a function?

// users.js
module.exports = () => ([
  "user1",
  "user2",
])

[zachleat]

Hm! We do some require cache busting to make sure that stuff updates properly. I made a reduced test case that seems to work fine with 0.6.0:

eleventy-341-zip.zip

[navarrorc]

@zachleat I used npx eleventy --serve on your example project and it did not update the global object. I'm running Windows 10 and using nodejs v11.4.0.

[zachleat]

A ha, Windows—thanks! Maybe related to #340 then!

[navarrorc]

Maybe one day I can contribute and help fix Windows related bugs. 😢
This is a great open-source project to work on as I find myself using it more and more.

[zachleat]

This is almost certainly a duplicate of #596 (although that was opened later—the work happened there)