Live Reload, or Rebuild, doesn't work with WSL

[Zageron]

Go Live or hq doesn't actually rebuild the project when making changes and saving.

• Is any output supposed to show up after hq announce when saving files? I get no output.

❯ hq
(c) hqjs @ 0.0.21
Start time: 0.1 s

Visit http://localhost:8081
or http://172.25.7.63:8081 within local network

[hqjs]

You can try to run it like this hq --verbose for debugging. Livereload script attaches to index.html file. If you don't have it - you can try to install separate Live reload plugin for a browser.

[Zageron]

So I am running in verbose now, thanks for that. I get all of the outputs on first opening.

My folder structure is effectively:

src

index.html
index.ts

• Launch hq, open in browser.
• full set of build stats, etag, and resolves for everything.
• Make a change in index.html or index.ts
• No output from HQ.
• Refresh the webpage.
• All output lists version 0 - 304 Not Modified

Here's the repository: https://github.com/zageron/zux

[Zageron]

[hqjs]

If you have index.html it should work out of the box. hq listens for fs changes with chokidar, if version is not changing - that means change events are being lost. That should be something WSL specific, may be some problems with chokidar.

[hqjs]

Without WSL it works without any problems. I can't test WSL so may be it is worth to post an issue to chokidar repository.

[Zageron]

Yeah so I installed node on windows and switched out of wsl, works now. Interestingly, HTTPS stopped working. (.22)

Anyway I will probably stop fiddling with this and just work on my project. This tool absolutely simplifies everything so I am very pleased. Thanks for making this. :)

[Zageron]

This issue is caused by using the windows mounted drives in WSL. This is a known issue.
Easy workaround, clone into ~ instead of /mnt/some/windows/folder

microsoft/WSL#4417

[stackchain]

It is cloned into ~ and still not working.