How to run asp.net core app automatically after changes in c# files

Question

I am running ASP.NET Core application on Visual Studio Code on a mac. To run the app, I use dotnet run from the terminal.

Whenever I make changes in one of the C# files, I have to stop and restart the app by hitting ctrl+c first and dotnet run again.

I watched Pluralsight course of Scott Allen, where he uses Visual Studio and after an edit to any C# files, he just reloads the page and it shows the changes. I am wondering if I can do the same in Visual Studio Code.

Answer 1

I think that dotnet watch should work. See the documentation from the link as there are various options. Here I copied the order in which this should work.

1. Add Microsoft.DotNet.Watcher.Tools to the tools section of the project.json file
2. Run dotnet restore
3. Execute with dotnet watch run