Only rebuild pages that have changed

[byrnereese]

I utilize a plugin that makes API calls that adds latency to the page build process. When I am editing content while running mkdocs serve, each time I save a single edit it triggers a whole site rebuild.

Ideally, editing a .md file should only cause a rebuild of that single page, not every page in the whole repos.

[waylan]

You can enable this with the --dirtyreload option of the mkdocs serve command. See mkdocs serve --help for documentation on this and other options available.

Be aware that this could break the navigation on pages which have not been rebuilt. Therefore, it is not the default behavior.