Please support hot reload for certain assets

[sma]

I've a Flutter app that contains a lot of markdown files as assets and needs to display them.

Changing such a file doesn't automatically trigger a hot reload so I have to manually press the yellow lightening button to verify whether my changes to those files look good. It would improve quality of life if this could happen automatically.

Hence, it would be nice if the plugin would use the pubspec file to find all assets and then optionally also hot reload if those assets are changed. Or just add md to the list of watched files in the shouldHotReloadFor function :)

[DanTup]

I think this should be opt-in because it might be unexpected if you're editing a README or something and it triggers reload (not to mention that the use case for .md is equally applicable to other assets).

[DanTup]

I added a new setting for this:

"dart.hotReloadPatterns": [
	"**/*.md", // All .md files
	"**/assets/**", // Do everything in assets
]

[DanTup]

This fix was included in a new pre-release version. If you want to test it out without waiting for the next stable version, you can switch to the pre-release versions of the extensions in VS Code using the button shown in the screenshot below.

Please let me know if you hit any issues. Thanks!

[sma]

At first, I used "assets/**" as pattern which didn't work but when I added the **/ prefix, it worked like a charm. I added the configuration as a workspace setting to my project so it gets only activated for my wiki project. Thanks.

[DanTup]

Yeah, the pattern is matched against the full path:

The pattern is matched against the absolute path of the file. Use **/assets/** to trigger reloading for everything in the assets directory.

There was something odd when we didn't do it this way but I don't recall what off the top off my head (this use of globs was copied from a similar legacy setting we had for formatting).

Glad it's working :)

[jacob314]

If this works well it is probably worth specifying in pubspec.yaml