[WSL 2] File watchers like create-react-app, gulp or sass doesn't work

[silvaan]

But I can, for example, open a react app from browser normally. Am I missing something?

[therealkenc]

Am I missing something?

No repro was offered which would allow a definitive answer; but guessing, no, you are probably not missing something ref #4169.

[canselcik]

Related to #4064 (comment) for sure.

[therealkenc]

#4064 #4739 as LZ

[djasuncion]

same problem here...

[isaumya]

I am also facing the exact same issue. So let's say I am using WSL 2 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Sass installed over nodejs. So, when I am doing the following:

> cd /mnt/d/some-folder/
> sass assets/scss/example.scss:assets/css/example.css --watch --style compressed

It says that watching file, but making changes to the file doesn't invoke the SASS compilation.

I had to go back to WSL 1 in order for it to work. Is this a WSL bug? Am I missing something here?

[DavidKahnt]

Saumya Majumder (@isaumya) It is currently not working in WSL2. There is still an open issue #4739 .

[isaumya]

@daviidesnow Thanks a lot for letting me know. I've moved back my Linux install to WSL 1 as it seems WSL 2 is still not ready for our use-case. Maybe will be fixed in a couple of months or so or maybe never. Who knows? Thanks a lot for pointing to the correct issue.

[TasinAhmed]

@daviidesnow Thank you. I was disappointed about this. Guess I'll use WSL1 for now :/

[tytrdev]

I got around this by just keeping my project on the native filesystem. I use Windows Terminal and open two tabs. One is ZSH on Ubuntu and this is where I do my tmux/vim stuff. The other is a powershell tab where I add dependencies, run the project, use git commandline, etc.

It's definitely not perfect, but it allows me to feel mostly at home on windows for now.