6 months ago

https://docs.docker.com/compose/file-watch/, a tool to improve the inner loop of application development, is now generally available. With containerized application development, there are more steps than Alt+Tab and hitting reload in your browser.

Now we are natively addressing common workflow friction we observe, like the use case of hot reload for frontend development.

For this reason, the tradeoffs we make for Docker Compose Watch favor fine-grained control for common development workflows with Docker Compose (Figures 1 and 2).

Figure Docker Compose Watch gives developers more control over how local file changes sync into the container.