Hi All. Apologies if this has been addressed (I didn’t find it): Developing a discourse plugin on my local machine tends to be pretty slow. Each reload of my locally running app (to view code changes) takes over 5 seconds. So I make a change in an html/hbs or js file, hit save, then have to reload …

Though I’m watching to see if there are any hints, I think that’s just the way it is. And from what I’ve seen, it’s much worse on a Mac.

Hey guys, You should quite confidently only have to restart the server if your API has changed - ie your Ruby on Rails code. If you’ve only changed the Javascript or HBS files, you can simply pick up the changes by refreshing the browser. You will have noticed that CSS file changes don’t even req…

I’m talking here about refreshing the browser, and whether hot reload is available to avoid having to do that. It’s the browser refresh that takes 5+ seconds to view any change. If I have to stop and reload the server (in the case that I change plugin.rb, for instance), that probably takes 60 secon…

You need to refresh the browser to pick up updated javascript files

[image] JQ331: Hot reload is of course the standard for developing with many technologies This will be coming with the EmberCLI: Coming to a Discourse near you!

In fact you can use Ember CLI with master Discourse right now to get this behaviour!

That sounds great, thanks. To use this for local development, is there anything I need to do other than download the latest version of discourse from github onto my computer?

You’ll need to check out the latest discourse then do something like this: Start the api server: rails s Start the Ember server: Enter the right folder cd app/assets/javascript/discourse Install packages yarn Run ember CLI: ember serve --proxy "http://localhost:3000" Then you can open htt…

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 $…

Hi there. Is hot-reload available with ember-cli in Discourse? I am still having the same issue I mentioned in my previous post. Following those steps, I still do not get hot-reload (ie, I still have to refresh the browser to see changes to html and javascript, and ember-cli’s output in the terminal…

Hot reload for plugin development?

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Falco (Falco) April 9, 2021, 4:53pm 6

This will be coming with the EmberCLI: Coming to a Discourse near you!

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