file watching doesn't work

[samuelstroschein]

Context

From Discord

20250302-0100-01.8730684.mp4

Proposal

Fix/implement file watching.

Additional information

• paraglide js uses this code to determine which files have been read when importing
• sherlock would need to set up chokidar or similar to watch the read files, upon a change execute importFiles again
• this file watching API is not part of the inlang SDK because node and file system dependencies are not suppose to be in the SDK, and loading projects from a directory (instead of files) is an interim workaround

[ubistrul]

👀

Sherlock version = 2.0.0-2.0.4

OS: Win11,
VS Code version: 1.97.0

[felixhaeberle]

I'll have a look at this and fix it, that file editing triggers the new messages to disaply e.g. file watching works.

[LeBenLeBen]

Another issue caused by Sherlock keeping translations state in memory: if you change the translation files manually and then extract a new translation, this will override the changes made in the files.

[felixhaeberle]

a fix is coming in opral/monorepo#3494 🎉