Live reloading not working properly

[urnotnagy]

using wsl2 on windows 10 after creating or running any sketch, the live view only renders once, then doesn't care for editing the sketch again for some reason.

this was edited after the sketch was ran

here it doesnt change even after refreshing/restarting the browser

I tried:

• reinstalling
• using canvas-sketch-cli
• running with hot reload feature
• making and running a new sketch on command line with canvas-sketch sketch.js --new --open
• changing the output folder when running as in canvas-sketch sketch-01.js --output=media/

[julienrondeau]

I think you should try this in your working directory :

canvas-sketch sketch-01 --output=medias/

this would create a directory named medias where canvas-sketch will be able to export your working file as .png

hope this help

[MrAmii]

This happened to me, but I solved the issue. You can't run canvas-sketch and have LiveReload if you are using wsl. You have to use a true bash terminal. Luckily, I had one already set up in VSCode so I didn't have to change how I was doing things too much, though I did lose 24 hours and a good night's sleep trying to figure this out.