Hot reloading fails if path has special characters in it ie Dropbox Business

[fo-rk]

Not sure if this is an issue, or an issue for hotreload middleware, but if you are serving app from Dropbox business folder, (which forces you to use Dropbox (Business Name) as a name format), the hot reloading feature doesn't work anymore.

[kazupon]

Thank you for your filling!

I can understand about Dropbox business folder.
Can you tell us the more explanation it?

[LinusBorg]

@kapuzon that's a problem of webpack-hot-middleware (or even webpack-core's --watch feature). it watches the files on the file system, and that mechanism collides with Dropbox' file watch functionality.

Happens with other sync services as well.

I think we can do little about it in vue-loader.

[LinusBorg]

@monowales after some research: does the path to your Dropbox folder contain spüecial chars like parenthesis? Dropbox for business adds something like Dropboxy (Personal) which seems to choke the --watch capabilities of webpack.

webpack/watchpack#42

[fo-rk]

Thanks for responses guys. Yep @LinusBorg, see title. Is the done thing to just wait for the dependency library maintainers to get around to fixing this? (webpack --watch relies on chokidar, relies on glob, which seems to be root of the problem.)

[LinusBorg]

Well, we can't fix webpack or its dependencies ...

Could you maybe try a symlink as a workaround?

[fo-rk]

Thanks @LinusBorg, I already have a symlink to Dropbox for development, and that doesn't solve it. I've hacked the chokidar dependency to require at least 3.0.0 of is-glob now and it seems to be working. I think this is unstable for Windows users though, which is why it hasn't been included yet. Still, for Mac and vue-loader users, this might be a handy short term fix...

Thanks for the great work by the way.

[yyx990803]

Closing since this seems to be out of our hands?