WSL2: babel watch silently fails

[zersiax]

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• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste the full set of specific command-line steps necessary to reproduce the behavior, and their output. Include screen shots if that helps demonstrate the problem.)

  • With Node, Npm/yarn, babel and babel presets installed, run: babel --out-dir --watch --presets=.
  • Babel will run once and then seemingly wait for filesystem changes.'

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:

  • When files in the src dir are changed, which should trigger a retranspile of the files in src dir to dist dir, nothing happens. No output is given, but nothing happens in the dist dir either.

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[onomatopellan]

Probably a duplicate of #4169. Try a /home folder instead of a /mnt one.