Live reloading local changes to a microserviceΒΆ

The biggest advantage of developing on a local machine is that you get immediate feedback for whatever changes you make to code. Most of the languages have some tooling around them which enables live reloading of the code changes on a running instance of the program.

But your local development environment and the production deployment environment could be different. You might have other microservices that you need to contact. Normal workflow is to add these variable parameters as environment variables and set them differently on the local and production environment. But in certain cases, this might not be possible or could be very hard to implement. For example, you have the Hasura API gateway resolving user cookie/token to user id and role. Your application only needs to look at this id/role to enforce access control. Doing this locally while the gateway and auth microservices are running on the cluster could be hard. Also, any microservice can be contacted from within the cluster using the internal endpoint without authentication.

Using Hasura, you can develop applications on the cluster just like you do on your local system. hasura microservice sync command can sync files from a local directory to any directory inside the running container on the cluster. Using sync and live-reloading capabilities of the language/framework, you can make use of all the Hasura features, like internal endpoints for contacting other microservices, id/role resolution for cookie/tokens etc.

This is the easiest and fastest way to develop applications on a Kubernetes cluster.

Most of the Hasura published quickstarts on the Hub come with documentation for how to enable live reloading.

Below are some examples for various languages:

For more details, read the full CLI reference for hasura microservice sync.

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