I would like to rig my dev environment to do auto reload, but i must be missing something. In my resources/application.conf file I added content:

ktor {
    deployment {
        environment = development
        port = 8080
        autoreload = true
        watch = [ org/grcole/bfw ]
    }

    application {
        modules = [ org.grcole.bfw.BFWApplicationKt.main ]
    }
}

but when I run it, it tells me there are no watched locations:

[grcole@C02WP0CRHTDG bfw (master)]$ ./gradlew :run

> Task :run
2018-12-05 19:04:49.865 [main] INFO  Application - No ktor.deployment.watch patterns match classpath entries, automatic reload is not active
2018-12-05 19:04:50.295 [main] INFO  Application - Responding at <http://0.0.0.0:8080>

Is there a 'best practice link' for env setup for a noob?

@gcole Were you able to get it to work? I am having the same issue

No 😞, I've been working on something else and was hoping by the time I came back to this there would be some ideas. I'm still not able to get it to work.

Ok if you ever get it to work I would appreciate it if you could share what you changed. I’ve been struggling with this for month and the documentation on the ktor didn’t help much

Hey guys, just encountered the same issue. I got it to work with the following: 1. Ensure you're watching the class changes in the application.conf file (for me it was my project's directory):

deployment {
        port = 8080
        port = ${?PORT}
        watch = [ MyFirstProject ]
    }

This only watches the class changes, therefore the project will need to recompiled, thus requiring: 2. Run

gradle -t build

to recompile when there are changes. 3. In a separate terminal tab, run

gradle run

. Unfortunately, the auto reload didn't work when I ran the application via IntelliJ as opposed to the terminal. After following these steps, every time I made a change in IntelliJ I would switch to the browser and the change would be reflected after refreshing (often had to refresh two or three times while the project recompiled). If anyone finds a better way, please let us know 🙂