Development server

Reload dev server on component file changes¤

This is relevant if you are using the project structure as shown in our examples, where HTML, JS, CSS and Python are in separate files and nested in a directory.

sampleproject/
├── components/
│   └── calendar/
│       ├── calendar.py
│       └── calendar.html
│       └── calendar.css
│       └── calendar.js
├── sampleproject/
├── manage.py
└── requirements.txt

In this case you may notice that when you are running a development server, the server sometimes does not reload when you change component files.

From relevant StackOverflow thread:

TL;DR is that the server won't reload if it thinks the changed file is in a templates directory, or in a nested sub directory of a templates directory. This is by design.

To make the dev server reload on all component files, set reload_on_file_change to True. This configures Django to watch for component files too.