Would you implement a simple protocol for the watch command?

Suggestion

Hi guys

I'm currently trying to get task-runners on board to create a protocol for watch-processes. The goal is that build-processes in watch mode do not automatically trigger a rebuild on file changes, but rather wait for the task-runner to tell them to do so. On the other hand, the watch-process should get a way to tell the task-runner when it's done and what the result is.

That's pretty much it, and it would be a very simple protocol.

Since TypeScript is the prime use case I have in mind for this, I thought I should ask you guys what you think about the idea. If such a protocol existed, would you implement it?

I'm trying to get the discussion started here: https://github.com/VanCoding/task-graph-protocol/issues/3
And here's a link to my example protocol and implementation, which also already has an implementation for tsc: https://github.com/VanCoding/task-graph-protocol

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Related issues #33388 #20258 #19584 #41611 #42838

✅ Viability Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

L’issue ne nomme aucun fichier du dépôt TypeScript, test ou point d’entrée. Commencez par examiner la discussion et l’implémentation d’exemple liées à task-graph-protocol, puis inspectez les issues associées #33388, #20258, #19584, #41611 et #42838. La tâche serait terminée lorsqu’un design de protocole serait accepté et que le périmètre d’implémentation de la commande watch serait confirmé.