diff --git a/bundles/org.openhab.automation.jsscripting/src/main/java/org/openhab/automation/jsscripting/internal/fs/watch/JSScriptFileWatcher.java b/bundles/org.openhab.automation.jsscripting/src/main/java/org/openhab/automation/jsscripting/internal/fs/watch/JSScriptFileWatcher.java
index 70aed1e6f..8e5730909 100644
--- a/bundles/org.openhab.automation.jsscripting/src/main/java/org/openhab/automation/jsscripting/internal/fs/watch/JSScriptFileWatcher.java
+++ b/bundles/org.openhab.automation.jsscripting/src/main/java/org/openhab/automation/jsscripting/internal/fs/watch/JSScriptFileWatcher.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public class JSScriptFileWatcher extends AbstractScriptFileWatcher {
 
     @Override
     protected Optional<String> getScriptType(Path scriptFilePath) {
-        if (!scriptFilePath.startsWith(FILE_DIRECTORY + File.separator + "node_modules")
+        if (!scriptFilePath.startsWith(getWatchPath().resolve("node_modules"))
                 && "js".equals(super.getScriptType(scriptFilePath).orElse(null))) {
             return Optional.of(GraalJSScriptEngineFactory.MIME_TYPE);
         } else {