fix(cli-38): catch syntax errors and recover

Catch exceptions thrown by the Babel transpilation function to allow the developer to gracefully recover to any mistakes in source files.
dhis2 · Dec 7, 2021 · 5f9c5bb · 5f9c5bb
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commit 5f9c5bb
Showing 1 changed file with 13 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/cli/src/lib/compiler/compile.js b/cli/src/lib/compiler/compile.js
@@ -94,8 +94,19 @@ const compile = async ({
  }
  const compileFile = async (source, destination) => {
  if (source.match(extensionPattern)) {
- const result = await babel.transformFileAsync(source, babelConfig)
- await fs.writeFile(destination, result.code)
+ try {
+ const result = await babel.transformFileAsync(
+ source,
+ babelConfig
+ )
+ await fs.writeFile(destination, result.code)
+ console.info(`Compiling ${source}: OK.`)
+ } catch (err) {
+ console.error(err)
+ console.info(
+ `Compiling ${source}: ERROR. Fix the problem and save the file to automatically reload.`
+ )
+ }
  } else {
  await copyFile(source, destination)
  }