[99s-extend] Cowboy, relx, and dev mode, oh my!

[Loïc Hoguin]

Running the release, stopping it, editing the file, running the release 
again works here. I suspect something related to Vagrant.

Also I suggest 'make run' rather than your start.sh.

On 09/23/2015 07:45 PM, Graham Hay wrote:
> I was fiddling with some js, and got tired of restarting the server. I
> was under the
> impression that using dev_mode with relx was the solution to this
> problem, but
> I can't seem to get it to work. I have an example here:
>
> https://github.com/grahamrhay/cowboy_devmode
>
> If I look in _rel, the lib folder for my app is a symlink, as expected.
> Yet when I change
> the web page, the rendered page is unchanged. I've tried a hard reload,
> and clearing
> the cache.
>
> And, in case that wasn't annoying enough, even restarting the server
> isn't enough!
> Nor is running make again. In fact, the only way I've found of getting
> it to update,
> is to turn off dev mode, and build the release.
>
> Am I missing something really obvious? As far as I can tell from
> perusing the code,
> the cowboy static handler just serves the file directly from the file
> system.
>
> (P.S. I am using vagrant, but I would expect that to cause errors rather
> than this, if
> the symlink wasn't working.)
>
>
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