django-debug-toolbar-autoreload 0.1.1

Automatically reloads your browser when a template, css or javascript file was modified.

django-debug-toolbar-autoreload

This package contains an extra panel for the excellent django-debug-toolbar.

The purpose is to automatically reload the page if a template that was used to render the current page is changed. It is for your browser what the runserver’s auto-reload feature is for your python code.

Install

1. Put the debug_toolbar_autoreload source folder in your PYTHONPATH.

2. Add 'debug_toolbar_autoreload' to your INSTALLED_APPS settings.

3. Add 'debug_toolbar_autoreload.AutoreloadPanel' to your DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PANELS.

This means your settings file should look something like:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ... other apps ...
    'debug_toolbar',
    'debug_toolbar_autoreload',
)

DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PANELS = (
    # default panels
    'debug_toolbar.panels.version.VersionDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.timer.TimerDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.settings_vars.SettingsVarsDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.headers.HeaderDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.profiling.ProfilingDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.request_vars.RequestVarsDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.sql.SQLDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.template.TemplateDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.cache.CacheDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.signals.SignalDebugPanel',
    'debug_toolbar.panels.logger.LoggingPanel',

    # autoreload panel
    'debug_toolbar_autoreload.AutoreloadPanel',
)

Requirements: Django 1.4 or higher is required since we need a multithreaded development server.

Contribute

1. Download and setup the project:

   git clone https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django-debug-toolbar-autoreload.git
   cd django-debug-toolbar-autoreload
   virtualenv .
   source bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements/development.txt
   python manage.py syncdb
   python manage.py runserver

2. Open one of the demo pages from http://localhost:8000/ in your browser.

3. Hack

4. Send a pull request

Changelog

0.1.1

• Try to detect if development server wants to shutdown. Before this change was the server still running in the background and didn’t allow you to restart it again.

0.1.0

• Initial release.