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What's a common pitfall when bind-mounting source code for live-reload development?

Performance can degrade significantly on non-Linux hosts (macOS/Windows) due to the overhead of the virtualized filesystem layer translating bind-mount file events, and node_modules/vendor directories mounted this way can cause severe slowdowns unless excluded via a separate anonymous volume or .dockerignore-equivalent exclusion.

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