[8.x] fix: kibana dev server not restarting for external plugin elast…

…ic#171260 (elastic#198246) (elastic#201040)

# Backport

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- [fix: kibana dev server not restarting for external plugin elastic#171260
(elastic#198246)](elastic#198246)

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packages/kbn-cli-dev-mode/src/watcher.ts

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ const packageMatcher = makeMatcher([
 /**
  * Any code that is outside of a package must match this in order to trigger a restart
  */
-const nonPackageMatcher = makeMatcher(['config/**/*.yml']);
+const nonPackageMatcher = makeMatcher(['config/**/*.yml', 'plugins/**/server/**/*']);
+const staticFileMatcher = makeMatcher(['plugins/**/kibana.json']);
 
 export interface Options {
   enabled: boolean;
@@ -87,6 +88,10 @@ export class Watcher {
           if (result.type === 'non-package') {
             return nonPackageMatcher(result.repoRel) && fire(result.repoRel);
           }
+
+          if (result.type === 'static') {
+            return staticFileMatcher(result.repoRel) && fire(result.repoRel);
+          }
         }
       },
       {