:set backupcopy=yes to trigger fs events for node

While trying to get hot module reloading working with parcel today I noticed that sometimes parcel's server didn't register when a file was saved.

It turns out that vim has some weird behaviour around writing files that prevents node's filesystem watcher from getting events that the file changed.

You can read about that weird behaviour here

You can get around this behaviour with:

:set backupcopy=yes

according to vim help backupcopy this will:

make a copy of the file and overwrite the original one

triggering the fs event.