Hugo development only updates html when md changing

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I have hugo stack with webpack and browsersync. Updating the files in the layout does not update the development server. Only when I do changes to content files the html files update.

  "start:hugo": "hugo  -d  ../dist -s site   --environment development --gc -v --watch --logLevel debug --noBuildLock  -D -F",

Here is the output when I do changes to the index file in layouts:

DEBUG cachebuster: Matching “layouts/index.html” with source “(postcss|tailwind)\.config\.js”: no match
Template changed /index.html
DEBUG Direct dependencies of “index.html” (identity.StringIdentity) =>
INFO build: step process substep resolve page output change set changes 1 checked 163 matches 0 duration 442.083µs
INFO build: step process substep gc dynacache duration 920.375µs
INFO build: step process substep rebuild templates duration 11.968292ms
INFO build: step process duration 13.757959ms
INFO build: step assemble duration 42ns
INFO build: step render substep pages site en outputFormat html duration 63.458µs
INFO build: step render substep pages site en outputFormat rss duration 61.083µs
INFO build: step render pages 0 content 0 duration 1.426042ms
INFO build: step postProcess duration 6.75µs
INFO build: duration 15.2675ms

Only when I do changes to the md file in content folder I get an update to the html output:

DEBUG cachebuster: Matching “content/_index.md” with source “(postcss|tailwind)\.config\.js”: no match
Source changed /_index.md
DEBUG Direct dependencies of “/” (*hugolib.pageState page-1) =>
INFO build: step process substep resolve page output change set changes 1 checked 163 matches 0 duration 754µs
INFO build: step process substep gc dynacache duration 1.581083ms
INFO build: step process substep collect files 47 files_total 47 duration 4.3635ms
INFO build: step process duration 7.362541ms
INFO build: step assemble duration 885.875µs
INFO build: step render substep pages site en outputFormat html duration 38.228625ms
INFO build: step render substep pages site en outputFormat rss duration 3.914041ms
INFO build: step render pages 56 content 39 duration 42.231917ms
INFO build: step postProcess duration 8.75µs
INFO build: duration 50.592ms

I am currently using “hugo-bin-extended”: “^0.124.1”

Cheers
Olaf

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This may be related to https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/12296, which is also a --watch issue. If I’m reading the lengthy thread correctly, it looks like the OP (with bep’s help) found a workaround.

4

Yes, seems to be related. Due to my setup, I cannot use hugo server. I did test it and even without the --disableFastRender, the templates updating correctly.

5

Why not? With v0.123.0 and later hugo server writes to disk.

6

Because of my stack and folder setup. It does not bundle the JS or CSS which is done through webpack.

7

Looks like you’ll have to wait until #12296 is addressed, or find another way. As mentioned in the issue, the --watch option is not widely used, so I suspect this may linger in the queue for a long time.

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Thanks