published by | Adam Johnson |
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in blog | Adam Johnson |
original entry | Django: Introducing django-watchfiles, for more efficient runserver autoreloading |
Django’s runserver
automatically reloads when you change Python files.
Without this autoreloading feature, you’d need to manually restart the server every time you made a code change.
However, the default autoreloading implementation is inefficient, as it constantly polls the filesystem for changes. The alternative to polling is to …