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Whenever a code file gets updated, monocle reloads it and reruns the whole project. This ensures that everything gets updated correctly, but that means if I'm, say, tweaking my character's jump height, I'll have to restart all the way from the main menu.

What if, instead, it only updated the file that was changed? In this case, only my character/game logic would update, and I could see the jump height immediately change.

(This could be a separate mode because, if this file only gets called to do something once in the beginning, such as created an object, updating it won't rerun it, so in this case the user may want to rerun the game as monocle does now)

I did this by editing the require function, keeping track of the files loaded, and reloading them when necessary. This works but it doesn't preserve the upvalues in the file. (I think a way to do this while keeping the upvalues intact at runtime would be to load the updated file separately, iterate over all its tables and functions and set them to the old file)

It would be awesome if you could specify a wild card, such as *.* when specifying files to watch, so that not every single file in the project has to be watched.