I just created a project with Ktor but my changes are not auto reloading unless I rerun the app on I...

# ktor

[Alexander Suraphel]

I just created a project with Ktor but my changes are not auto reloading unless I rerun the app on IntelliJ. Is there auto-reload out of the box?

[Big Chungus]

Auto reload only happens when you recompile your kt files as it's only reloading .class files. You need a separate continuous kotlin compilation running in the background

[Alexander Suraphel]

Is there a way to enable that on IntelliJ? The continuous compilation?

[Big Chungus]

No, it's gradle feature (google around)

[Alexander Suraphel]

okay thank s

[Rescribet]

Note that development mode needs to be on for this.
Keeping with 12 factor and wanting to use application.conf without separate files for different envs, removing the development line from that conf and adding the following worked well:

application {
    mainClass.set("io.ktor.server.cio.EngineMain")

    if (System.getenv("KTOR_ENV") == "development") {
        applicationDefaultJvmArgs = listOf("-Dio.ktor.development=true")
    }
}

[Alexander Suraphel]

Thanks @Rescribet