Angular cli - how to disable auto reload when ng serve

I think you only want to disable the rebuild on change option

Just try:

$ ng serve --watch=true|false

Just do ng serve --live-reload false or ng serve --no-live-reload

It used to not work, this PR solved it.

serve your application with this command:

ng serve --live-reload=false

Or for modern ng:

ng serve --no-live-reload

if you want to run your application in prod mode, use following command

ng serve --source-map=false --aot --prod --live-reload=false