Editing Files Outside of the Eclipse Workbench
Like a lot of people, I work with at least two editing tools in my day-to-day programming. For Java I generally use Eclipse but for JavaScript I use vscode because I think it's lightyears ahead of Eclipse's JavaScript tooling. Other people use other editors for their own reasons but if the files belong to an Eclipse workspace, you need to tell Eclipse to keep an eye out for external changes made to its own project files.
Otherwise Eclipse will simply not see changes made by other editors.
Here is a link to the Eclipse documentation that deals with this.
In Eclipse, goto Preferences->General->Workspace
On Windows, Window->Preferences->General->Workspace
On Mac, Eclipse->Preferenes->General->Workspace
Check the box for "Refresh using native hooks or polling"
About the Author Scott Salisbury
Scott is the creator of Motivated Code Pro and the Managing Partner of Pinch Hitter Solutions, Inc. Motivated Code Pro is devoted to helping developers build better software careers. Pinch Hitter Solutions (phs4j.com) is a consultancy focused on mobile app development and enterprise web work. Scott works primarily in Java and JavaScript and focuses on Spring and Ext JS.
