Live reload not working correctly with devcontainers

[vitezprchal]

Hi there,

Air only watches the directory it is being run in. For instance, when I run air in the /cmd directory, it only watches the /cmd directory and does not detect changes in any other directories or subdirectories.

Steps:

• Set up a go project with multiple directories (e.g., /cmd, /internal, etc.).
• Configure a devcontainer in vscode.
• Run air within one of the subdirectories, such as /cmd.
• Make changes in other directories or subdirectories.
• Air does not detect changes outside the /cmd directory.

Environment:

• Go version: go1.22.5 linux/amd64
• air version: v1.52.3

I'm using the default configuration provided.
I've also tried enabling proxies.

Is there a known workaround for this issue when using devcontainers?

[LandSprutte]

Having similar problems on my mac. It rebuild when I save the file, but doesnt refresh in the browser

[rweir]

Run air within one of the subdirectories, such as /cmd.

can't you just not do that? air should just be run in the root of the project, then you just configure it to ignore things you don't want, for example:

exclude_dir = ["assets", "tmp", "vendor", "testdata"]

you will need to write a config file.

[WorldLibMi]

I have a similar issue with go 1.22.9 on an alpine devcontainer. The air version that can be installed is v1.52.3, the newer ones need a newer go version, but that has not been incorporated yet into the apk distribution.

The behavior I observe is that it works for the root project directory if and only if the directive include_dir is not present in the file .air.toml. Whenever I add this directive, even if it is include_dir = [ "./" ], air is not considering anything in the watch list anymore:

without the directive:

with the directive (doesn't matter what value it has):

My purpose is to make it watch to other folders, like ../target/static, i.e. for files that are not produced by this project, but by a sibling.