#34173·nx

Hot reload stopped working

Author: danilo-bassi-simplisafeCreated Jan 21, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
Labelstype: bugscope: bundlerspriority: medium

Current Behavior

Hi, after a nx migration hot reload stopped working. I have an Angular + NestJS monorepo with NX and after migrating from nx 20.3.1 to 22.1.3 I noticed a few bugs on hot-reload:

  • When I do any change in my backend app:
    • The Frontend app also reloads.
  • When I update the backend or any of its dependencies:
    • The backend app does not perform a hot reload.
    • The frontend app reloads, even if I update a library it doesn't depend on.

I am serving the projects with this command:

nx run-many -t=serve -p frontend backend --watch

I am attaching the project.json files for both project, just to check if I am doing something wrong.

backend.project.json frontend.project.json

Expected Behavior

Hot reload in Backend and Frontend app as it was working in version 20.3.1

GitHub Repo

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1 - Run nx run-many -t=serve -p frontend backend --watch 2 - Edit a file. 3 - Hot reload not working.

Nx Report

bash
NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

Node           : 22.14.0
OS             : linux-x64
Native Target  : x86_64-linux
npm            : 11.1.0

nx (global)            : 22.1.3
nx                     : 22.1.3
@nx/js                 : 22.1.3
@nx/jest               : 22.1.3
@nx/eslint             : 22.1.3
@nx/workspace          : 22.1.3
@nx/angular            : 22.1.3
@nx/devkit             : 22.1.3
@nx/eslint-plugin      : 22.1.3
@nx/module-federation  : 22.1.3
@nx/nest               : 22.1.3
@nx/node               : 22.1.3
@nx/rspack             : 22.1.3
@nx/web                : 22.1.3
@nx/webpack            : 22.1.3
@nx/docker             : 22.1.3
typescript             : 5.9.3
---------------------------------------
Registered Plugins:
@nx/webpack/plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin
---------------------------------------
Community plugins:
@auth0/auth0-angular : 2.5.0
angular-eslint       : 19.8.1
---------------------------------------
Cache Usage: 15.52 MB / 92.89 GB

Failure Logs

bash

Package Manager Version

No response

Operating System

  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

No response