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Add sample for an incremental and watching program

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review the still-unmerged PR #225 first, since it contains the existing incremental-program example referenced by the issue. Determine how its host, program, and configuration objects should be combined with watching, and consider the work done when the wiki includes a working sample that avoids the long initial file-system scan.

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Description

The now very old still unmerged PR #225 has been very useful in creating an incrementally building program but now I want to set up an incrementally building program that also watches for changes so I can avoid the long file system scan that happens when I create the incremental program.

Unfortunately I don't understand how to combine the different host, program and configuration objects to achieve this.

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