Hi Matthew, The Web server doesn't do any special to prevent or make possible what you're talking about. Other orthogonal Racket features will help you though. The key is dynamic-rerequire. A great library for doing stuff like this the reloadable package:
https://github.com/tonyg/racket-reloadable Jay On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Matthew Eric Bassett <mebass...@gegn.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I often use serve/servlet to launch my webapp. Often from the repl > while I'm developing. > > One major annoyance I have, however, is that I cannot easily hot-swap > code. If I change a required dependency I then need to kill the process > (usually re-enter! from the repl to update the changed dependency) and > serve/servlet again. It's an annoying process, but as enter! only > updates changed files it only takes a few seconds. > > Things get worse when I change templates. These don't reload until I've > exited out of the repl and come in again - enter! doesn't seem to notice > that templates have changed. This is an intolerable annoyance! > > I must be doing something silly, as this is a very inefficient process. > Is there a way to get racket to hotswap templates and updated > dependencies without having to explicitly restart the serve/servlet > thread, or worse the entire racket machine ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Matthew Eric Bassett | http://mebassett.info > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
