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```gradle build -t```
allows you to always automatically build when you make changes

is there a way to automatically restart an application after a rebuild?

I was trying
```gradle run -t```
which is running the application, but it doesn't rebuild and restart when making changes.

To automatically restart a task, Gradle needs to know, if your task is finished. The `run` task never finishes, so Gradle would need to cancel the task, which could be wrong.

It can be achieved via gradle services <https://github.com/mpetuska/klip/blob/master/plugin/klip-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/server/KlipServerService.kt|https://github.com/mpetuska/klip/blob/master/plugin/klip-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/server/KlipServerService.kt>

Kotlin js uses similar strategy to support continuos mode for webpack run tasks

You can then check if the service is running and restart it from the task. That way the task can complete without killing the service. Of course you'll want to check for continuous mode and make task blocking when it's not continuous.

is that from the Gradle Build Services?
<https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_services.html>

looks super interesting, thanks for the links!