Auto-reload on code change

It would be great if daphne had a feature to auto reload whenever code changes similar to what gunicorn does with the reload flag.

I know the runworker is an option but this would allow for an much easier deploy for me. Now I have to give my development servers a separate run command and it creates a different environment which could cause problems.

[kiruh]

What is the current preferred way of auto reloading during development?

[wolph]

There are several reasons:

1. Runserver is very limited, as soon as you have a more demanding web application (for example, one that requires parallel requests) it’s not suitable anymore
2. To reduce complexity and to make sure everything works similarly on production and development I run gunicorn on both with a single ansible deploy configuration. The only difference is that development has DEBUG enabled.

I agree with your statement that runserver = development but I disagree with runworker = production. While runworker can be used in production it can be used in development as well similarly to how gunicorn and celery can be used both in production and in development environments.

Luckily your environment is simple enough not to require anything outside the scope of runserver but that isn’t to say everyone has that luxury.