fix(@angular-devkit/build-angular): improve file watching on Windows when using certain IDEs #26468
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This commit, fixes a file watching issue where file changes events are not triggered when using IDEs like Visual Studio (not VS Code).
The main changes to solve the issue are;
Replace
watcher.on('all')
withwatcher.on('raw')
Using
watcher.on('all')
does not capture some of events fired when using Visual studio and this does not happen all the time, but only after a file has been changed 3 or more times.Handle
rename
eventsSome IDEs will fire a rename event instead of unlink/changed when a file is modified}
Closes #26437
NB: Confirmed with a user that was experiencing the issue, that this fix indeed solved the problem #26437 (comment)