Sometimes white page after live reload

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Hi,

since some months i get sometimes a white page after a change in the code in the frontend has been made. There doesn´t seem to be any logic to when it happens. After a forced rebuild everything looks normal again.

Any ideas?

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This is probably a problem with the group of JavaScript-packages that Phoenix relies on to handle the combining of assets. I have noticed this problem before as well; it seemed to get worse the more complex the application became.

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Which OS are you using? We have heard this issue reported on Windows, where it would first truncate the file and then write to it, causing the CSS/JS files to be empty for a brief period of time.

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Here is a PR: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_reload/pull/69

If you could try it out and let us know if it fixes the issue it would be very appreciated! If so, we can continue the discussion in the issues tracker.

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Ubuntu 16.04 latest release

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I also had this happening on OSX 10.11.6, very in-between once in a while - perhaps happened 4 or 5 times in 5 or 6 months) and I always forget to try to debug why it happened because the error is unrelated to the code, restarting iex/phx.server solves it and it doesn’t happen enough times to annoy me.

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I have been using Linux Mint Serena (which is based on Ubuntu 16.04). Currently I am using Manjaro (an Arch Linux flavour) but I have not tested it under this architecture yet.

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@josevalim

Seems to fix the issue. Hard to test, cause it happend randomly. Will let you know if it stays that way.

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Thanks for the feedback! 1.1.4 released.

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awesome! - just one thing… the readme says The default interval is 100ms.

while the code seems to be default 1000ms phoenix_live_reload/lib/phoenix_live_reload/live_reloader.ex at main · phoenixframework/phoenix_live_reload · GitHub

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Thanks, I forgot to save my changes. 1.1.5 is out with proper default of 100ms.

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