angular-cli: ng serve --watch is not watching for code changes
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Versions.
@angular/cli: 1.4.9 node: 8.9.0 os: linux x64 @angular/animations: 4.3.6 @angular/common: 4.3.6 @angular/compiler: 4.3.6 @angular/core: 4.3.6 @angular/forms: 4.3.6 @angular/http: 4.3.6 @angular/platform-browser: 4.3.6 @angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.3.6 @angular/router: 4.3.6 @angular/cli: 1.4.9 @angular/compiler-cli: 4.3.6 @angular/language-service: 4.3.6 typescript: 2.3.4
Repro steps.
ng serve --port 8080 --watch
The log given by the failure.
The development server is not reloading when changes are made on the code… It only compiles and serves the project.
I don’t know what other information can I supply in order to explain better myself!
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- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Reactions: 1
- Comments: 18 (3 by maintainers)
Hi all, This may help if it is the same problem I had. Trying to use
ng serveandng build --watchsometimes worked but mostly they were not watching for code changes and I thought it was something to do withng.Then I remembered a problem I had a while back with inotify watches
I ran this on my Ubuntu machine and it seems to have kicked in and watching code changes:
Hope it helps
I am just realizing that using ng serve with sudo is making it work properly
Below cmd is working for me
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p