Originally posted by **benthien** February 22, 2022
Has anyone been able to get the watch command to work in Proton? If so I would like to see an example. The following is a description of my failed attempt
I performed the following steps in Windows 11 WSL, and in a standalone version of Linux-mint 20. In both I get the same error message.
1. created a directory temp
2. ran the command `proton init --template=sites`
3. ran the command `yarn`
4. ran the command `yarn add browser-sync chokidar -D`
5. ran the command `proton watch`
Here is a screenshot after step 2 (ubuntu in wsl)
![step2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12056197/156655329-ef544f00-b235-4c73-951d-12db7d8ca534.png)
Here is a screen shot after steps 3 and 4
![steps3and4](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12056197/156655490-48c91ad7-60e2-447a-97d1-1a04706abd06.png)
Here is a screen shot showing the error after step 5
![error_in_step5](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12056197/156655672-cdfcf086-2787-4459-b239-58de77244123.png)
However, `proton build` worked properly.
Discussed in https://github.com/foundation/proton/discussions/20