Hot reload
In this How-To we are going to show how to speed up the development of Pglet Python apps with hot reload tool.
Pglet app consists of one or more .py files in app directory. It normally runs as any other Python app with python your-app.py. When any of .py files change, the application must be restarted. While you do a lot of small changes working to perfect your Pglet UI, those constant restarts could become very annoying.
watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.
To install on macOS:
brew install watchexec
To install on Windows:
choco install watchexec
Now use the following command to call/restart python your-app.py when any Python file in the current directory (and all subdirectories) changes:
watchexec -r -e py -- python your-app.py
Once the app is restarted just hit refresh in your browser to reload it.
You also need to modify your Pglet app and set an application name to run on a permanent URL and disable browser opening on the start:
pglet.app("my-app", target=main, no_window=True)