Livewire | $refresh doesn't work

My livewire component works fine when the page loads, then I add a new menu via ajax call, but when I click on the refresh button, the component doesn't refresh and I've to reload the page to see the changes. No error messages. Thanks

• Laravel 11
• Livewire 3
• Vite 5 - I think the issue is here ***

resources\views\livewire\side-menu.blade.php

<div class="sidebar" >

     <button x-on:click="$wire.$refresh()" class="d-block btn btn-primary"  >Refresh </button>
          

I also tried:

<div class="sidebar" >

	<button wire:click="$refresh()" class="d-block btn btn-primary"  >Refresh </button>
          

sidemenu.blade.php

 <aside class="main-sidebar sidebar-dark-primary elevation-4" style="top: 0; bottom:0; position:fixed "> 
        <a href="/home" class="brand-link">        </a> 
        @livewire ("side-menu",[ .. ]); 
      </aside>
	  ...

https://livewire.laravel.com/docs/actions#refreshing-a-component