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Immich5mo ago
MrHitman

Can't get hot reload to work in Development with Dev Containers

I’m having trouble with hot reload, when running Immich in Dev Containers. When I make changes in my frontend or backend source files, the app doesn’t reload automatically. No changes are detected by VITE or the backend service. Only when recreating the containers it will use the changes code.

I followed the setup guide here: https://immich.app/docs/developer/devcontainers

Environment: Windows 11 , Visual Studio Code (1.103.1), Docker Desktop v4.44.2, WSL2.
Did not change any compose related files. docker-compose.dev.yml is pointing to immich-server-dev:latest (at time of writing 19-8-2025).

Has anyone run into this before? Any tips on how to debug or fix it?
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