NancyFX reflect changes immediately for static contents

Question

In ASP.NET, whenever I'm running my server in Debug mode from VS2012,any changes I make to static contents (js,css, etc) are reflected immediately upon saving.

In NancyFX, I need to restart my server everytime I make changes to static content. I'm assuming this is because VS needs to copy the static contents to output directory each time I run the server.

Is there anyway to reflect the changes made to static contents immediately upon saving?

Here's my configuration for static contents

public class MainBootstrapper : DefaultNancyBootstrapper
{
    protected override void ConfigureConventions(NancyConventions nancyConventions)
    {
        nancyConventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("Scripts"));
        base.ConfigureConventions(nancyConventions);
    }
}

This is probably relavant too. I'm running this under a console application with nancyfx main loop written like this:

class Program
{
    const ushort port = 64402;
    const string escapeString = "/Terminate";

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        NancyHost host;

        #region Making new instance of NancyHost
        var uri = new Uri("http://localhost:" + port + "/");
        var config = new HostConfiguration(); config.UrlReservations.CreateAutomatically = true;

        host = new NancyHost(config, uri);
        #endregion
        #region NancyFX hosting loop
        try
        {
            host.Start();

            Console.Write("Start hosting the Fate/Another ranking system frontend\n" +
                "\t\"" + uri + "\"\n" +
                "To stop the hosting, input \"" + escapeString + "\".\n\n");
            do Console.Write("> "); while (Console.ReadLine() != escapeString) ;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Unhandled exception has been occured!\n"
                + e.Message);
            Console.ReadKey(true);
        }
        finally
        {
            host.Stop();
        }

        Console.WriteLine("Goodbye");
        #endregion
    }
}

This will be ran under ubuntu w/ nginx in case you're wondering why I'm not using Nancy.ASPNET.hosting

Answer 1

Nancy's default root path is the bin folder of your application. If you want updates on your assets to be reflected after a refresh without needing to rebuild you can use a custom Nancy.IRootPathProvider you can do something like the following:

public class NancyCustomRootPathProvider : IRootPathProvider
{
    public string GetRootPath()
    {
#if DEBUG
        return Directory.GetParent(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location)).FullName;
#else
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location);
#endif
    }
}

This also allows for production builds to serve directly from their bin directory as may be the case when deploying the application.