Grafonnet support

[Syndlex]

It would be create if we could use Grafonnet to define Dashboards and view them Immediately in Grafana.
The current workflow with Grafonnet is very bulky.

• Run Grafonnet into temp file
• Click on temp file to Open UI
• Make changes
• Close window with this extension
• Run Grafonnet into temp file
• Click on temp file to Open UI

It would be great if the temp file could just reload and a integration into grafonnet would be even better.

[malcolmholmes]

You can use a command such as entr do the execution of jsonnet when a file in a dir changes.

Also, do check the Grizzly server. Slightly more mature than this code.

[Syndlex]

The Problem is that when running entr the extension will not reload the view in Grafana.

Grizzly could be an option but is not as convenient as a hot-reload would be. I understand that that this Feature is probably very complex to implement for a very small user base.
But this would make creating Dashboards with jsonnet a breze.

IaC and Grafana is generally very immature.

[malcolmholmes]

The Grizzly server will "hot reload" when you use grr serve -w.

[K-Phoen]

We plan on integrating grizzly with this extension, which should help with supporting your use-case.

Leaving this issue open for now for tracking purposes.