Pathoschild
Support hot reload please
As a mod developer, when I create and build my mod, I use dotnet build and dotnet run. However, even after making a small change to the code, I have to shut down the game, run dotnet build or dotnet run again. This process is very time-consuming.
Hot reload functionality is essential in many game modloader (such as Forge or tModLoader). I would like to suggest adding this feature to your development roadmap. If you are already planning to support it, I would be happy to contribute via a pull request.
I use hot reload all the time, but I normally use windows - not sure what you’re using. I als tend to use visual studio.
When using my Mac laptop and Rider, I’ve noticed in the past that I usually can only get the debugger or hot reload working, not both. But usually I used hot reload via dotnet run I think, so I wonder why it isn’t working for you at all.
I use vscode to develop my mod, I usually input dotnet run to console,then the SMAPI will runing. For this way, I can not hot reload my code.
Hot reload is already fully supported with Visual Studio. If VS Code needs special changes to support it, pull requests are welcome!
In theory, we can use dotnet watch to develop a csharp program with hot reload support. But when I developed the mod by SMAPI, it look like unwork.