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as we have lite-server in Node to monitor real-time changes of our files, do we have anything similar to it in Django?

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  • See Answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/56805827/11475846 – Lewis Jun 27 '20 at 14:43
  • PyCharm does that. But its an IDE not a package. – Red Cricket Jun 27 '20 at 14:51
  • Hi @LewisHepburn, the answer explains the concept of ajax that is not what i'm asking. I'm asking is there a package through which we can monitor real time changes as we update code of our files, as lite-server serves the same functionality in node. – Syed BilawalHassan Jun 27 '20 at 14:53
  • @SyedBilawalHassan I had this issue when I first started. I don't believe there is one out there. Which is why people are lead to separate from Django front-end to JS front-end. – Lewis Jun 27 '20 at 14:57
  • @RedCricket, Pycharm for sure is an IDE, but i'm not familiar with its real time changes functionality. In node specifically, there exists a module "lite-server" which serves this functionality regardless of IDE. – Syed BilawalHassan Jun 27 '20 at 14:57

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yes there is a way to live reload(live server).

This django app adds a management command that starts a livereload server watching all your static files and templates as well as a custom runserver command that issues livereload requests when the development server is ready after a restart.

Installation

Install package:

$ pip install django-livereload-server

Add 'livereload' to the INSTALLED_APPS, before 'django.contrib.staticfiles' if this is used:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'livereload',
    ...
)

Add 'livereload.middleware.LiveReloadScript' to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES (probably at the end):

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'livereload.middleware.LiveReloadScript',
)

Or to MIDDLEWARE for Django >= 1.10:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'livereload.middleware.LiveReloadScript',
]

This will inject the livereload.js script into your webpages if DEBUG setting is on.

Configuration If you need the livereload server to use a different host and port than the default 127.0.0.1 and 35729, specify them by setting LIVERELOAD_HOST and LIVERELOAD_PORT in settings.py.

Usage Start the livereload server:

$ python manage.py livereload

keep the livereload server running.

Start the django development server as usual (in another console):

$ python manage.py runserver In the browser's address bar access your web app by doing:

127.0.0.1:8000 or localhost:8000 now every time you hit save in your editor, the django-development-server/livereload-server automatically updates the staticfiles

Customization By default both template and staticfiles directories are watched.

You can ignore template directories using:

$ ./manage.py livereload --ignore-template-dirs

Or staticfiles directories using:

$ ./manage.py livereload --ignore-static-dirs

You can ignore file extensions:

$ ./manage.py livereload --ignore-file-extensions=.less,.scss

Extra files and/or paths to watch for changes can be added as positional arguments. By default livereload server watches the files that are found by your staticfiles finders and your template loaders.

$ python manage.py livereload path/to/my-extra-directory/

This will be excluded from the paths ignored by --ignore-template-dirs and --ignore-static-dirs.

Host and port can be overridden with --host and --port options.

$ python manage.py livereload --host=myhost.com --port=9090

the runserver command python manage.py runserver also accepts three additional options:

  • --nolivereload to disable livereload functionality
  • --livereload-host to override both default and settings file specified host address
  • --livereload-port to override both default and settings file specified port
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