# Hot reload for plugin development?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hot-reload-for-plugin-development/186218>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 9, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hot-reload-for-plugin-development/186218 "2021-04-09T14:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![JQ331](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hot-reload-for-plugin-development/186218/10 "2021-07-27T19:22:47Z")

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I was excited to upgrade my local discourse instance, and am now running 2.8 locally. But I am not yet able to get hot reload to work for html and js changes.

Here is how I run things:

cd into the discourse folder locally

`$ redis-server` //starts the server

`$ rails s`_//starts the rails app_

`$ yarn` _//only run this the first time, I expect_

`$ bin/ember-cli`_//starts ember cli. The command `ember serve--proxy "http://localhost:3000"` gave me errors for some reason_

This successfully has the app run at localhost:4200.

I have added in a plugin the local discourse instance, which is successfully displayed at localhost:4200. However, if I make changes to the html or js files, these changes are only displayed on the app running locally if I refresh the browser.

Do I have to do something else to have hot-reloading work?

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