#reload Reloading Automatically as Files Change —————————————

Pausing to restart your development server as you work can be interruptive, so pecan serve provides a --reload flag to make life easier.

To provide this functionality, Pecan makes use of the Python watchdog library. You’ll need to install it for development use before continuing:

$ pip install watchdog
Downloading/unpacking watchdog
...
Successfully installed watchdog

$ pecan serve --reload config.py
Monitoring for changes...
Starting server in PID 000.
serving on 0.0.0.0:8080, view at http://127.0.0.1:8080

As you work, Pecan will listen for any file or directory modification events in your project and silently restart your server process in the background.