Live reloading stopped working (phoenix 1.8-rc1, elixir 1.18, otp 27)
For some reason, my live reloading isn’t working anymore and I have no idea why. I upgraded my phoenix app from 1.7 to 1.8-rc1. Somewhere along the way, I think its related, my live reloading stopped working.
Versions
- phoenix: 1.8-rc1
- elixir 1.18.3
- erlang 27.0.3
Description
First, I checked to make sure that live debugger is connecting:
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "development") {
window.addEventListener(
"phx:live_reload:attached",
({ detail: reloader }) => {
console.log("🦠 'reloader attached':", "reloader attached");
Which returns 🦠 'reloader attached': reloader attached in the browser, so we are all good there.
However, I did notice that no logs are streamed to the browser even though this is set up correctly:
config :my_app, MyAppWeb.Endpoint,
live_reload: [
web_console_logger: true,
patterns: [
~r"priv/static/(?!uploads/).*(js|css|png|jpeg|jpg|gif|svg)$",
~r"priv/gettext/.*(po)$",
~r"lib/my_app_web/(controllers|live|components)/.*(ex|heex)$"
]
]
As you can see from the snippet above I did try to specify another path because I thought that this might be the issue but it made no difference.
What is also strange is that any time I change a file all I see is this in the console:
Done in 2ms
However, I liveview doesn’t refresh the page, I see no re-compilation (was that Done message the recompilation?).
other things I have tried
i tried the things listed below but didn’t have any success:
- upgrade/downgrade to different elixir version
- upgrade/downgrade to other phoenix 1.8 rc version
- try a different file watching type (like :fs_event)
- checked and made sure that my inotify allows more watchers
Does anybody have any idea what could cause this behaviour? I did try to reboot my computer and it appeared to work again, so perhaps it’s a local issue? I’m running on ubuntu 24.04.
