Sometimes, we want to auto reload Python Flask app upon code changes.
In this article, we’ll look at how to auto reload Python Flask app upon code changes.
How to auto reload Python Flask app upon code changes?
To auto reload Python Flask app upon code changes, we can enable debug mode.
To do this, we write
app.run(debug=True)
to call app.run with the debug argument set to True.
Also, from the shell, we can run
$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1
$ flask run
to set the FLASK_DEBUG environment variable to 1 to enable debug mode.
And then we run flask run to start the app.
Conclusion
To auto reload Python Flask app upon code changes, we can enable debug mode.
