I’m checking out Dash and it looks great. :smile: However, to speed up the visual dev cycle I’d love to use auto reload in the site generated by the Python app. This means: When I re-run the app after layout changes the browser displaying the site automatically reloads the page. Is there a way to …

[image] halloleo: just a developer convinience It really does sound like you are looking for hot-reloading. hot-reloading restarts the server but it also refreshes the browser once the server is restarted. This is the default mode in the latest version of dash ( Installation | Dash for Python …

Thanks, Chris. Will try it out.

I tried it - and it does the reload/restart of the server app. However I’m looking for a reload in the browser like browsersync . This means when the server app restarts the brwoser detects teh change to the html/javascript files and realoads as well. Has any body done this? Maybe by integrating th…

[image] halloleo: However I’m looking for a reload in the browser Are you looking for Live Updates | Dash for Python Documentation | Plotly perhaps?

Thx Chrisfor your prompt response. Looks quite complicated though for just a developer convinience… Might just continue to hit Ctrl-R. :wink: On static sites browsersync is quite easy to wire up with a node development server, so that was worthwhile doing…

It works now including the browser reload - but I could swear it did not work before… Not sure what I did wrong earlier… Maybe i didn’t set debug-True, or I just didn’t wait long enough for the changes to propagate. Anyway, it works now. Thanks a lot for your continues responding!

An easy solution is using the html autorefresh commands. html.Meta(httpEquiv=“refresh”,content=“60”). This command tells the html to refresh the page after 60 seconds.

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chriddyp November 13, 2018, 7:47pm 2

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