Docker bound mount - can not see changes on browser

Question

I\'m using docker-toolbox on windows home. I was able to run a jekyll-serve web server image to see the default page on browser, but when I try to edit file on VS Code, I can no

Answer 1

Issue identified

Bind mounting actually does not work for docker toolbox:

file change events in mounted folders of host are not propagated to container by Docker for Windows

Solution

This script is intended to be the answer to this issue: docker-windows-volume-watcher.

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Side note

This is a common issue with data manipulated outside of your container.

For jekyll, in particular, even the solution described in the issue below does not work for windows-based systems.

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-watch/issues/17

In short you need to execute jekyll with the --force_polling flag (Does not work with Windows Hosts). You can find it in the jekyll docs here

https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/options/

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On Linux based systems it works out of the box since the image used in the question bretfisher/jekyll-serve already utilizes the --force_polling flag.

just ran

docker run --rm -it -e JEKYLL_NEW=true -p 8080:4000 -v (pwd):/site bretfisher/jekyll new . 

to create a new jekyll site and

docker run --rm -it -e JEKYLL_NEW=true -p 8080:4000 -v (pwd):/site bretfisher/jekyll-serve                                                  

to run it mounted to a directory on my machine (linux) and was able to edit a file with changes propagating to jekyll.