[v2] ionice run ios --live-reload not reloading on file change

The issue: When I run my project with live-reload the emulator/device is not being updated when I change my source files.

ionic run ios -c --live-reload

Running 'run:before' gulp task before run
[14:26:39] Starting 'clean'...
[14:26:39] Finished 'clean' after 20 ms
[14:26:39] Starting 'build'...
[14:26:39] Starting 'sass'...
[14:26:39] Starting 'html'...
[14:26:39] Starting 'fonts'...
[14:26:39] Starting 'scripts'...
[14:26:39] Finished 'scripts' after 67 ms
[14:26:39] Finished 'html' after 103 ms
[14:26:39] Finished 'fonts' after 110 ms
[14:26:40] Finished 'sass' after 928 ms
[14:26:55] Finished 'build' after 16 s
[14:26:55] Starting 'run:before'...
[14:26:55] Finished 'run:before' after 6.7 μs

Setup Live Reload
Running live reload server: http://10.0.0.120:35729
Watching: www/**/*, !www/lib/**/*
√ Running dev server:  http://10.0.0.120:8100
Ionic server commands, enter:
  restart or r to restart the client app from the root
  goto or g and a url to have the app navigate to the given url
  consolelogs or c to enable/disable console log output
  serverlogs or s to enable/disable server log output
  quit or q to shutdown the server and exit

Now, if I change anything in my project (let’s say app/app.ts) the emulator/device does not reload.

I think it’s because the ‘watch’ task in gulp is not being run.

Workaround If I open another terminal window and run this command in my project folder, live reload works as expected:

gulp watch

[14:31:28] Using gulpfile ~/ionic/ionic-projects/PortalShopApp/gulpfile.js
[14:31:28] Starting 'clean'...
[14:31:28] Finished 'clean' after 18 ms
[14:31:28] Starting 'watch'...
[14:31:28] Starting 'sass'...
[14:31:28] Starting 'html'...
[14:31:28] Starting 'fonts'...
[14:31:28] Starting 'scripts'...
[14:31:28] Finished 'scripts' after 80 ms
[14:31:28] Finished 'html' after 109 ms
[14:31:28] Finished 'fonts' after 109 ms
[14:31:29] Finished 'sass' after 1.19 s
7.3 MB bytes written (11.42 seconds)
[14:31:43] Finished 'watch' after 15 s
[14:31:55] Starting 'html'... <--- I changed app/pages/login/login.html and it started 'html' task like expected
[14:31:55] Finished 'html' after 12 ms

This should happen automatically, right?

[rspach]

Have the same issue in the emulate command. The changes I make in the app folder are not updated.

I run the command

$ ionic emulate ios --livereload --address localhost --consolelogs --serverlogs

Nothing is updated. I then have to open a new terminal and run the command

$ gulp watch

Then all updates are processed correctly.

$ ionic info

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 6.3.0
Gulp version:  CLI version 3.9.1
Gulp local:  
Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.35
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.19
ios-deploy version: 1.8.6 
ios-sim version: 5.0.8 
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v6.3.0
Xcode version: Xcode 7.3.1 Build version 7D1014 

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