I just want to add that your Docker "containers" are just processes on the host, and don't actually exist outside of the containerized process' lifetime. Your c

I just want to add that your Docker "containers" are just processes on the host, and don't actually exist outside of the containerized process' lifetime. Your container is not a VM. So restarting a container to pick up code changes is just saying that you're restarting your process to pick up code changes. That's why you'll need to use something like pm2 if you want files watches and hot-loaded. The other comments are great, I just wanted to give some insight into why.