Enable hot reload for development server

ryansurf / cli-surf

Get surf and ocean data from the command line interface

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Enable hot reload for development server #36

Closed K-dash closed 6 months ago

K-dash commented 6 months ago

It was inconvenient because file updates were not automatically reflected when Flask was running. Therefore, we enabled hot reloading of Flask.

Updated server.py to pass the debug parameter to app.run() based on the DEBUG environment variable.
Added a new DEBUG field to the ServerSettings class in settings.py with a default value of True.

By setting debug=True, The server automatically restarts whenever a file is modified.

ryansurf commented 6 months ago

Genius. I kept running the server, seeing an error, stopping the server, changing a file and then starting the server again to see if the bug was fixed. That was getting... tedious 😂

Good call, merging

K-dash commented 6 months ago

@ryansurf Thanks! Another benefit of setting the debug mode to True is that when an error occurs, Flask will display the error's stack trace on the screen 🥴

ryansurf commented 6 months ago

Woah, that is useful. Nice!