Simple Way to Restart Python Flask on File Change During Development
When creating an API in Flask having to restart the process every time you make changes to your file is painful. Thankfully, it’s easy to set it up to restart whenever you save changes to your file.
Script
To do so you need to use these commands:
export FLASK_DEBUG=1 export FLASK_APP=name-of-your-python-file-here.py flask run
Result
When the process starts you should see something like this:
When you save changes to your file you should then see something like this:
It’s simple, but it can save a lot of time and pain.
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