Problems with setServerOptions & watch, broken in the last canary
Author: TigersWayCreated Aug 20, 2026Updated Aug 20, 2026
Labelsneeds-triage
Operating system
Windows 11
Eleventy
4.0.0-alpha.10
Describe the bug
A simple eleventyConfig.setServerOptions({ watch: ['_site/styles.css'] }); for example is perfectly working with the official latest version 3.1.6, it displays a message, and the browser is updated with a new/updated css file built somewhere else.
It doesn't do anything in the canary 4.0.0-alpha.10.
You can try to drag/drop or copy styles.css in the provided repo.
Reproduction Source Code URL
https://github.com/TigersWay/eleventy-issue-chokidar
Screenshots
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Source: 11ty/buildawesome