Some info on on-the-fly compilation: https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Triggered-Execution https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Triggered-Execution http://co

Some info on on-the-fly compilation: https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Triggered-Execution https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Triggered-Execution http://cookbook.liftweb.net/Developing+using+a+text+editor.html http://cookbook.liftweb.net/Developing+using+a+text+editor.h... https://github.com/liftstack/lift24-s29-blank.g8#readme https://github.com/liftstack/lift24-s29-blank.g8#readme (still a work in progress, not debugged, but you can test the sbt "~ compile" continuous compilation directive)