Volume file changes are not detected in container on Windows host

[micdahl]

Using docker-compose for developing Angular CLI app, running via ng serve inside the container does not detect file changes made on the host in a volume. Therfore I have to restart docker-compose up everytime I made changes to files. Timestamp and content of the files though are updated in the container. So alternative I can use touch <filename> inside the container to rebuild but this is not really a satisfying development flow as I have to do this for every changed file.

docker-compose version

docker-compose version 1.9.0, build 2585387
docker-py version: 1.10.6
CPython version: 2.7.12
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2h 3 May 2016

docker version

Client:
Version: 1.12.6
API version: 1.24
Go version: go1.6.4
Git commit: 78d1802
Built: Wed Jan 11 00:23:16 2017
OS/Arch: windows/amd64

Server:
Version: 1.12.6
API version: 1.24
Go version: go1.6.4
Git commit: 78d1802
Built: Wed Jan 11 00:23:16 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

docker info

Containers: 68
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 68
Images: 176
Server Version: 1.12.6
Storage Driver: aufs
Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Dirs: 265
Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host null overlay
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Security Options: seccomp
Kernel Version: 4.4.41-moby
Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.4
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 1.919 GiB
Name: moby
ID: YYNX:753B:ZI7R:HAY4:EVAG:WBK2:RD6P:YS7Y:Z67V:3SY3:JFUL:PLDQ
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
File Descriptors: 13
Goroutines: 23
System Time: 2017-01-12T15:08:14.0497198Z
EventsListeners: 0
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
WARNING: No kernel memory limit support
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8

docker-compose.yml

version: '2'
services:
angular:
build: angular-client
ports:
- "4200:4200"
volumes:
- angular_node_modules:/usr/src/app/node_modules
- ./angular-client:/usr/src/app

volumes:
angular_node_modules: {}

Dockerfile

FROM node:latest

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y xvfb chromium
RUN npm install -g angular-cli

ENV APP_HOME /usr/src/app

RUN mkdir -p $APP_HOME

WORKDIR $APP_HOME

EXPOSE 4200

CMD ["npm", "start"]

[shin-]

Hi @micdahl ,

I believe this is an engine issue. Could you cross-post this to the docker/docker issue tracker?

[micdahl]

Hi @shin- ,
seems you are right. Reproduced with docker without compose and observed the same behaviour.

Opened docker issue.