`link:polyfill` overlays the package into node_modules and keeps it current.
That is all it does. A `bun run dev` already running goes on serving what it
loaded at startup, however many times the overlay is rewritten underneath it:
node_modules is excluded by file watchers, so the change lands in the one place
nothing is looking.
The script promised the opposite -- that `bun --hot` would reload the copied
file live. That promise is now removed, and replaced by the instruction to
restart.
It cost about an hour. A defect had been fixed upstream, the overlay refreshed,
and a probe on a freshly launched server confirmed the fix 3 runs out of 3. The
same sequence by hand reproduced the defect at once. The two observations looked
irreconcilable and the hunt went to the wallet, to prior state, to timing.
The dev server had been up for six days. It predated the package rename and the
whole migration; the browser was running a different application from the one
under test. Nothing warned: a stale server looks exactly like a current one, and
the script's own header ruled out the true cause for anyone who trusted it.
The reflex is written down with the leaf: when a fix seems not to take, or when
a hand-run and an automated run disagree, check how long the server has been up
before anything else. One command, cheapest hypothesis first.
Sylvain Duchesne
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