Whatever the livereload tool is (in this case it was a webpack watcher on osx), the problem is that a change on the host isn't forwarded to the guest correctly when using shared folders, so the socket server doesn't send the update notification to the browser. :/

You have three options to work around this : - use a polling based approach - use a plugin like https://github.com/adrienkohlbecker/vagrant-fsnotify which internally uses `touch` (this is the one i used to choose) - use an ssh mount (not sure about this one, it's been a long time)

All of these workarounds have their downsides, so I'm wondering if someone has another great approach to get a stack up and running when you have a lot of dependencies (not speaking about packages, but different sub-projects)