Grunt livereload or reloading the browser?

[Brake6]

Hello

After some head scratching I have finally set up a local site for testing (M1 was easier ). I have also created a new theme thats inherits from the blank theme.

Question: when using

grunt watch

(with live reload) the page is updated according to the css (less) changes. But, if I then reload the browser, the change is reverted back?!

Why is it so?

Best,

Magnus

Sidenote: In my opinion, this is a "to smart" system which instead creates a huge complicity of files in different folders.

[mhauri]

@Brake6 in which mode do you run your site locally, you can check it with: 

bin/magento deploy:mode:show

If it isn't in developer mode you can change it by the following command:

bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

Sandro Wagner from integer_net wrote a good article about the frontend workflow with Magento 2, see: https://www.integer-net.com/magento-2-frontend-workflow-step-by-step/

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[Brake6]

Thanks mhauri

I'm in development mode (just double checked to be sure).

Yes, Sandros article is very good (the best one I have found so far on the workflow topic) 

[Sunil Patel · Accepted solution]

Hello @Brake6

maybe css calling from page cache, try to check into the inconito mode.

Hope it will help you.

[Brake6]

You are so right, Sunil!

And such a newbie mistake by me.  Reloading the browser without the cache (on Safari, cmd+alt+R) fixed it.

Thanks,

Magnus