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

[Loïc Hoguin]

Wait, I'm dumb. These steps also work:

Running the release, opening the website and seeing ohai, editing the 
file with some extra text, reloading, seeing the extra text.

On 09/24/2015 04:35 PM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
> 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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