Regeneration of _includes files

[enkota]

Hey,

As I've noticed from #320 --watch flags are disabled and work from the admin.

When I go to update the header file for instance inside _includes I need to manually go into a post and re-save for changes to update. Am I missing something here? Sorry, pretty new to Jekyll!

[ashmaroli]

Yes, that's an unfortunate technical consequence. Admin does not support editing template files as of now -- only content files.
The workaround is to comment out this plugin and serve the site again and re-enable the plugin when you're done editing template files.

[enkota]

@ashmaroli I see! No biggie at the moment, I'll just develop first then add in content via admin later. Thanks 👍

[benbalter]

One workaround that was proposed was a "regenerate" button someplace in the UI.

[mertkahyaoglu]

@benbalter IMO, there are two ways to achieve this. One is a hacky way which we just send a PUT request to configuration endpoint without any changes to trigger site.process. Second is that we create an individual endpoint for regenerating. Which one do you suggest?

[ashmaroli]

One workaround that was proposed was a "regenerate" button someplace in the UI.

But since the template file wont be edited via the UI, its still a minor inconvenience.

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[mariusa]

I'd like to +1 too. Not only for includes, but also for .js/.css files edited using another editor.
A button in Admin wouldn't help, as it's the same effort to go to terminal, ctrl+c and re-run last command.

The solution would be simply to re-generate when changing files, no matter if files are changed via admin or other editors. Not sure why the admin has to take over re-generation when enabled as a plugin? Just write files to disk, like all editors.

Thanks for considering.

[jekyllbot]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least two months.

The resources of the Jekyll team are limited, and so we are asking for your help.

If this is a bug and you can still reproduce this error on the master branch, please reply with all of the information you have about it in order to keep the issue open.

If this is a feature request, please consider whether it can be accomplished in another way. If it cannot, please elaborate on why it is core to this project and why you feel more than 80% of users would find this beneficial.

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