Possible issue updating to 4.0.6 from 4.0.5 and --watch-admin

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Hey there,

So I updated today and I can’t seem to get localhost:8000/admin to work now, after running npm run develop – --watch-admin / yarn develop --watch-admin etc. The localhost:8000/ just returns a connection error. It gives me a 8080 port address in the terminal readout when you start the server, through which I can access the strapi dashboard, but it just refreshes and errors when I make a change, and then I have to refresh the page and go back to where I was and it shows the changes. As in, it’s not hot-reloading.

Has anyone else run into this? Am I perhaps doing something silly?

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I can confirm to having the same problem. No solution found so far…

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Good, at least it’s not just me. I tried creating a new strapi install from scratch and the same issue happens. Anyone got any idea?

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Hey, can confirm as well. Having the same issue on 4.0.7, though I can’t even access the dashboard through 8080 - neither on an updated version from 4.0.5 nor on a fresh install on 4.0.7.

Any chance you found a solution so far? I’ve been trying to find all sorts of solutions all day, to no avail…

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Hey guys, the problem is persisting but I’ve found a workaround from github.

You’ll have to edit node_modules package, which isn’t great because you’ll have to redo it every time you update strapi. But it works for now.

Go to

node_modules/@strapi/strapi/lib/commands/develop.js

Then find (roughly line 52)

worker.send('kill');

Wrap that with

if (!watchAdmin) {
    worker.send('kill');
 }

Not 100% sure about the impact on anything, but since it’s dev and only affects when the --watch-admin parameter is set, I don’t think it’ll be a trainsmash.

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Hey everyone, seems like this is fixed with 4.1.2

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