How to reload when code changes during development

[SamEdwardes]

Thank you for the great work on django-tasks. I am new to django, and have found your library really nice to work with. Is there a way to automatically reload django-tasks when my code changes? For example, I start the main process with:

uv run manage.py runserver

When code changes, it auto reloads:

2024-12-08 06:50:04.683 | WARNING  | config.settings:<module>:54 - {'message': 'DEBUG is True'}
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
December 08, 2024 - 06:50:05
Django version 5.1.2, using settings 'config.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

[08/Dec/2024 06:50:05] "GET /email-screener HTTP/1.1" 200 624770
/Users/samedwardes/projects/personal/gmail-screener/gmailscreener/app_screener/models.py changed, reloading.
2024-12-08 06:50:15.764 | DEBUG    | config.settings:<module>:35 - App is starting!!!

Is there a way to do something similar with django-tasks? Here is how I start the process:

uv run manage.py db_worker

I am using the database backend.

TASKS = {"default": {"BACKEND": "django_tasks.backends.database.DatabaseBackend"}}

I think this is related to #105. Is there any work around I can do before this is implemented at the library level?

[RealOrangeOne]

Nothing first-party, no. You'll need to use an external tool to reload it.

See open issue: #105

[SamEdwardes]

Thank you! Do you have any suggestions on tools that could do this?

[RealOrangeOne]

I quite like https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec

[SamEdwardes]

Thank you! This does the trick:

watchexec -r uv run manage.py db_worker

I looked at a few other options but could not get them to work:

• fswatch
• watchman

Thank you for your help.