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
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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
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
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Registered Plugins:
@nx/webpack/plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin
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Community plugins:
@auth0/auth0-angular : 2.5.0
angular-eslint : 19.8.1
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Cache Usage: 15.52 MB / 92.89 GBFailure Logs
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Additional Information
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Source: nrwl/nx