Hot reload Flask app?

[Roland Müller]

On 2020-10-01 16:33, sjeik_appie at hotmail.com wrote:
>     Hi,
>     I would like to create a "/reload" view in my Flask app, so I could easily
>     and safely reload it when code, templates etc change. Similar to what
>     happens when running the app with the debug server. I am using Nginx and
>     Gevent on a recent Ubuntu system with Python 3.6.
>     My strategy would be to gracefully stop Gevent [1], then do
>     os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGHUP). I have not yet tried this (not
>     working today!). Just wondering if there are best practices.
>     Thanks!
>     Albert-Jan
>     [1]
>     http://www.gevent.org/api/gevent.baseserver.html#gevent.baseserver.BaseServer.stop

Running flask app.run(debug=True) will make the Flask server watching 
the filesystem for source code changes and re-deploy your app.

https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Debug/

-Roland