server restarting for each change

[sebastiaanviaene]

I am developing a project in ELectrode and have a problem , for each HTML , CSS or JS change the server restarts and I have to wait a minute (sometimes more) to see the result. In some aspects of webdevelopment this is very frustrating ( CSS for example). Is there a better way or is this the intended method for developing Electrode ?

[animesh10]

That is intended behavior when you start the server in watch mode using gulp dev. You can chose to start your server using gulp build and gulp server. This will not pickup changes until you do a gulp build again.

[sebastiaanviaene]

Thanks. I also know now why it was so slow. My laptop just had problems running the server. When I went on my desktop it worked much faster.

Is there a way to work with CSS in electrode where you can refresh to see instant results without a full server restart?

[animesh10]

You should run gulp wds.hot to run the webpack dev server, and in another terminal you can run gulp server to run the actual hapiJs server.

[cross311]

@animesh10 Is there any way to make that behavior default. Running two commands is not ideal and requires devs to look through docs. I understand when updating server to restart the server, but electrode is running webpack dev server, so any client updates do not need a server restart do they?

[cross311]

another similar question: #235

[jchip]

we could turn off watch for dev or hot mode.

[codingcircus]

Did someone here already find a way to extend the arch-gulpfile of electrode? I've been trying to wrap my head around how to modify the gulp configuration in my own gulpfile, however I can't seem to get it too work. Would be cool, if we could just overwrite or extend the server-watch task.