ionic-cli: Ionic v3 Live Reload not working

From @silverbackdan on May 17, 2017 12:7

Ionic version: (check one with “x”) [ ] 1.x [ ] 2.x [X] 3.x

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Current behavior: While running ionic serve or ionic run <platform> -l no file changes trigger a reload or have any effect. (live reload not working). Are there any dependencies I need to make sure are installed myself or any way of outputting any logs on the files that should be being watched or running the watch command on it’s own with a verbose output?

Expected behavior: Live reload should be working and enable updates to html/scss files etc. to be reflected without a rebuild.

Steps to reproduce: ionic serve or ionic run <platform> -l

Related code: N/A

Other information: Output when starting to run on the browser platform with livereload. It opens a browser on port 8000, I’m not sure if it should be 8100 - either way, neither port seems to update when scss files or html files are changed and saved.

$ ionic cordova run browser -l -c --verbose --address 192.168.1.101
[DEBUG] Load global plugin @ionic/cli-plugin-proxy
[DEBUG] Load local plugin @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova from ***/node_modules/@ionic/cli-plugin-cordova
[DEBUG] Load local plugin @ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular from ***/node_modules/@ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular
Starting app-scripts server: --livereload --l --consolelogs --c --address 192.168.1.101 --port 8100 --p 8100 --livereload-port 35729 --r 35729 --iscordovaserve --externalIpRequired --nobrowser - Ctrl+C to cancel
[14:18:24]  watch started ... 
[14:18:24]  build dev started ... 
[14:18:24]  clean started ... 
[14:18:24]  clean finished in 3 ms 
[14:18:24]  copy started ... 
[14:18:24]  transpile started ... 
[14:18:28]  transpile finished in 3.27 s 
[14:18:28]  preprocess started ... 
[14:18:28]  deeplinks started ... 
[14:18:28]  deeplinks finished in 89 ms 
[14:18:28]  preprocess finished in 89 ms 
[14:18:28]  webpack started ... 
[14:18:32]  copy finished in 7.65 s 
[14:18:36]  webpack finished in 8.47 s 
[14:18:36]  sass started ... 
[14:18:37]  sass finished in 1.06 s 
[14:18:37]  postprocess started ... 
[14:18:37]  postprocess finished in 9 ms 
[14:18:37]  lint started ... 
[14:18:38]  build dev finished in 13.09 s 
[14:18:38]  watch ready in 13.45 s 
[14:18:38]  dev server running: http://192.168.1.101:8100/ 

> cordova run browser
[14:18:40]  lint finished in 2.79 s 
Running command: ***platforms/browser/cordova/build 

Cleaning Browser project
Running command: ***/platforms/browser/cordova/run --nobuild

Static file server running @ http://localhost:8000/index.html
CTRL + C to shut down

Ionic info: (run ionic info from a terminal/cmd prompt and paste output below):

global packages:

    @ionic/cli-utils : 1.1.2
    Cordova CLI      : 7.0.1 
    Ionic CLI        : 3.1.2

local packages:

    @ionic/app-scripts              : 1.3.7
    @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova       : 1.1.2
    @ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular : 1.1.2
    Ionic Framework                 : ionic-angular 3.2.1

System:

    Node       : v7.10.0
    OS         : macOS Sierra
    Xcode      : Xcode 8.3.2 Build version 8E2002 
    ios-deploy : 1.9.0 
    ios-sim    : 3.1.1 

Copied from original issue: driftyco/ionic#11700