Any efficient way on plugin development?

[Bruce Lee]

Hi, currently whenever I make any modification to my plugin, I will need to reload the entire list of plugins. The reloading process will take ~5 secs.

Is there any efficient method to reload only my plugin or only the changes that I have made? (for rapid development).

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

[yariplus]

Absolutely. This is what Grunt is for, Grunt will watch your plugin files and reload resources when necessary.

Instead of starting your NodeBB with ./nodebb start, just run grunt. It runs in interactive mode, so make sure you keep the window/session open while developing.

Now if you change a file, Grunt will see the change and you can watch as it reloads only the necessary resources, and it's much faster at it than in production mode.

[Bruce Lee]

Thank @yariplus, learn something new today.