EBUSY error on npm run watch (Laravel Vite) when modifying SCSS – Need to restart manually

Question

• Issue I'm facing an issue where npm run watch (Laravel Vite) crashes every time I modify and save an SCSS file. The error message shows that a file is locked (EBUSY error), forcing me to manually restart the watcher every time to apply changes.

This is error I get every time watcher reboots, and I must also say that locked files change. It's not always cleave-phone.lt.js. :

EBUSY: resource busy or locked, unlink 'C:\...\cleave-phone.lt.js'

I’ve attempted several fixes, but none have worked permanently:

• Disabled Windows Defender (Real-time protection & folder exclusions added).
• Deleted public/build/ and rebuilt it.
• Cleared Temp folder (C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Temp).
• Restarted terminal and system.
• Ran npm run watch with Administrator privileges.
• Also saw that disabling Java(TM) Platform SE Binary solved problem for some, but I dont even have that process running in task manager.

How can I fix this permanently so Vite doesn’t crash, and I don’t have to restart npm run watch manually after every change? Any workarounds or configurations that could help?

Thanks in advance!