File watching on mounted volumes doesn't work

[wclr]

Expected behavior

For example these popular packages:
nodemon
node-dev
webpack

should be able to watch file changes on mounted volumes.

Actual behavior

nodemon (works too only using legacy flag)
node-dev (works only with legacy --poll option)
webpack (works only with poll option)

[friism]

Thanks for reporting, this is a known limitation: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/troubleshoot/#inotify-on-shared-drives-does-not-work

[wclr]

Ok, it seems that tsc works, not sure why it seem to me that it doesn't.

[nhooey]

It looks like inotify-proxy is a workaround to this problem.

[elonderin]

update:

TLDR

• still not working as of 2.2.0.3
• workaround is: use install docker-windows-volume-watcher

long story

• i found this thread: https://forums.docker.com/t/file-system-watch-does-not-work-with-mounted-volumes/12038
• and installed it: pip install docker-windows-volume-watcher
• seems to work (even on my corporate Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.1304] )
• has a bit of a delay
• the mounted volume cannot be read-only!

the link to the docker docs is dead

Thanks for reporting, this is a known limitation: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/troubleshoot/#inotify-on-shared-drives-does-not-work

i'd wish, i had seen that limitation beforehand :sigh:

[elonderin]

update

seems to be fixed in 2.2.0.4

[trajano]

Seems to be broken in 2.2.0.5

I tied

  vue:
    image: node:lts
    networks:
      - intranet
    volumes:
      - /d/p/spring-cloud-demo/vue-app:/work
    command: >
      bash -c "cd /work
      && npm run serve"

Then tried changing a file and does not work.

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