# Is it possible to "watch" without browsersync?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/is-it-possible-to-watch-without-browsersync/17730
**Category:** sage
**Tags:** webpack, sage9
**Created:** 2020-02-26T02:12:27Z
**Posts:** 11
**Showing post:** 7 of 11

## Post 7 by @pboi20 — 2020-02-28T14:38:59Z

Hi @shaneparsons

Here’s a quick and dirty way to disable BrowserSync and Webpack HMR in Sage 9 :

> <https://github.com/pboi20/sage/commit/2af0e390e7daa42b1db2a2f38e68918928e9f76f>

It essentially makes `yarn start` behave like what I would expect from `yarn watch`.

I’ve used this configuration on a few projects with Turbolinks on the front-end, which works very well.

I hope it can be useful,

P.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.roots.io/t/is-it-possible-to-watch-without-browsersync/17730)._