sbt-web workflow vs. Grunt workflow about sbt-web HOT 12 OPEN

What you're describing sounds like a problem ie we should be able to achieve what you're looking for. Note though that ~run isn't necessary for Play.

I shall investigate.

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@huntc - How is this different from sbt/sbt-less#25 ? ( I am just wondering based on your response)
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+1 from me (same project, different team).

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I may close this issue for now given that #59 is a duplicate of it.

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What about processing of the .styl files in app/assets? Will this happen without causing the application to reload? We probably should submit a separate issue that covers the processing/compilation of source files without F5, right?

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I think that the issue being reported here is a general one with Play. If things are resolved for one plugin then all will benefit.

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To get it right: that changing a .styl file (or s.th. similar in app/assets/) does not trigger the recompilation should be reported as playframework issue? I think this was the main point of this issue here, and #59 was only about the reload triggered by static files in public/.

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I'll re-open this then

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Ok, thanks.

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This should be easy to implement (it should be sufficient to change compile in Compile to playAssetsWithCompilation at https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/master/framework/src/sbt-plugin/src/main/scala/PlayRun.scala#L236), but I wonder if there are valid reasons for excluding assets compilation out of ~run loop. It's not clear to me if that was a deliberate decision or not.

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It would be nice if it were more configurable. I think that some folks want certain asset processing to happen in dev mode while others want none and the processing you want in dev is often different than what you want in prod. It seems like it'd be nice to have scopes for DevAssets, TestAssets, ProdAssets.

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@benmccann Right now we have the following:

pipelineStages in Assets := Seq(...

which is distinct from:

pipelineStages := Seq(...

The former will execute only for dev mode, the latter will include the former and execute for prod mode.

Is that satisfactory?

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