Hi there, I just upgraded to 3.5.0. In previous versions it would immediately apply CSS modifications in theme components without reloading the page. This doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Is it broken, or is it disabled? Thanks a lot!

It’s disabled on production instances, per this topic: [image] Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes Live reloads of stylesheets have been disabled for production instances , because they were causing problems when updating themes and/or Discourse core. (…) Live-l…

No more live reload with CSS modifications?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) August 23, 2025, 5:11am 2

It’s disabled on production instances, per this topic:

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No more live reload with CSS modifications?

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