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Martin Cmarko
Martin Cmarko

Reputation: 691

How to setup Rancher Desktop on macOS so that Vite server hot reload will not take ages

I recently moved from Docker Desktop to Rancher Desktop. However, once I did that, Vite hot reload functionality stopped working on my Laravel Sail project.

After further investigation I figured Rancher Desktop requires Vite to use Polling.

When using polling, hot reload started to work but it takes 15 to 20 seconds to react on a file change.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 480

Answers (1)

Martin Cmarko
Martin Cmarko

Reputation: 691

I figured the solution with Rancher Desktop settings.

Make sure your vite.config.js is set to use Polling:

export default defineConfig({
    server: {
        watch: {
            usePolling: true,
        },
    },
})

In Rancher Desktop go to Preferences -> Virtual Machine -> Emulation and select VZ enter image description here

Than go to Preferences -> Virtual Machine -> Volumes and select virtiofs enter image description here

This way the Hot Reload works as expected. However, note that usePolling leads to high CPU utilization.

Upvotes: 2

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