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I've been using watchgod [0], which seems to work similarly—not sure if jurigged also monitors all included modules, or is cross-platform-friendly. Anyone know

• breuleux 6y ago
  I believe watchgod basically restarts the process whenever changes happen. Jurigged does not restart anything: it computes a diff between the old and new code, executes that diff, fudges the code object pointers inside the existing functions, and prays that doesn't break it. The advantage is that it keeps the program state, so you can edit a program that has a slow startup or salvage a process that has been running for hours. It's especially nice with a repl, if you run jurigged with no arguments or jurigged -m IPython, your changes will be automatically included in your interactive session. The disadvantage is that it keeps the program state, so if you make changes to init functions for example, it'll most likely just crash. So it depends on your use case. If your process is lightweight and/or you don't care about keeping the current program state, watchgod is probably better for you (I believe there's a similar alternative called hupper that you might want to check out).