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I know for a fact that Flask, in debug mode, will detect changes to .py source code files and will reload them when new requests come in.
I used to see this in my app all the time. Change a little text in an @app.route decoration section in my views.py file, and I could see the changes in the browser upon refresh.
But all of a sudden (can't remember what changed), this doesn't seem to work anymore.
Q: Where am I going wrong?
I am running on a OSX 10.9 system with a VENV setup using Python 2.7. I use foreman start in my project root to start it up.
App structure is like this:
[Project Root]
+-[app]
| +-__init__.py
| +- views.py
| +- ...some other files...
+-[venv]
+- config.py
+- Procfile
+- run.py
The files look like this:
# Procfile
web: gunicorn --log-level=DEBUG run:app
# config.py
contains some app specific configuration information.
# run.py
from app import app
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(debug = True, port = 5000)
# __init__.py
from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.login import LoginManager
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask.ext.mail import Mail
import os
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object('config')
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
#mail sending
mail = Mail(app)
lm = LoginManager()
lm.init_app(app)
lm.session_protection = "strong"
from app import views, models
# app/views.py
@app.route('/start-scep')
def start_scep():
startMessage = '''\
<html>
<header>
<style>
body { margin:40px 40px;font-family:Helvetica;}
h1 { font-size:40px; }
p { font-size:30px; }
a { text-decoration:none; }
</style>
</header>
<p>Some text</p>
</body>
</html>\
'''
response = make_response(startMessage)
response.headers['Content-Type'] = "text/html"
print response.headers
return response
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To run the application, use the flask command or python -m flask . You need to tell the Flask where your application is with the --app option. As a shortcut, if the file is named app.py or wsgi.py , you don't have to use --app . See Command Line Interface for more details.
Flask has been claimed as synchronous on many occasions, yet still possible to get async working but takes extra work.
Enable Flask development mode By default, flask run launches a production-friendly server process. However, you can opt into a hot-reloading debug mode by setting the FLASK_ENV environment variable. Now, changing any python source files will automatically restart the flask process.
Sample Application where app is our application and this application had been saved in the file start.py:
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def hallo():
return 'Hello World, this is really cool... that rocks... LOL'
now we start the application from the shell with the flag --reload
gunicorn -w 1 -b 127.0.0.1:3032 start:app --reload
and gunicorn reloads the application at the moment the file has changed automaticly. No need to change anything at all.
if you'd love to run this application in the background add the flag -D
gunicorn -D -w 1 -b 127.0.0.1:3032 start:app --reload
-D Demon mode
-w number of workers
-b address and port
start (start.py) :app - application
--reload gunicorns file monitoring
Look at the settings file: http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/settings.html
all options and flags are mentioned there. Have fun!
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