I’m working on a test runner, so I’d like to save certain states between live reloads, but not cold starts. In dev mode, I need a callback to know if it is a live reload, or meteor starting from a cold start. Is there a hook or variable that can be evaluated?

There is an undocumented function described here: [image] Is there an official documentation of Reload._onMigrate()? help Reload._onMigrate() is a private API that other packages use to register their interest in participating in a reload. That means they can p…

Thanks @waldgeist that’s exactly what I was looking for!

@waldgeist I see this is just for client side. Do you know anything for server-side? I want to listen to an event of the server restarting on file changes, and restore some state. Any ideas?

@benjamn I’m working on dispatch:mocha test runner. I want All tests to run from a cold start. But I want a specific (dev selected) test to run on hot refreshes (presumably from a file change). Is there a reload event I can listen to on the server side? Can I pass state from before the rebuild to a…

I am not aware of a hook on the server-side. I guess you would have to look into the details of the app build process. Maybe implementing a build plugin would be an option.

Live Reload: Is there a hook or variable

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waldgeist February 21, 2017, 7:06pm 2

There is an undocumented function described here:

I am using this feature to prevent hot reloads in certain scenarios, but you can also use it for detecting reloads.