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Tilt Development Environment

Automatic Reload Behaviors

Tilt live-reloads aggressively. Never suggest restarting tilt up or manually refreshing resources—Tilt handles this automatically in nearly all cases.

What Reloads Automatically

Change Type What Happens Your Action
Tiltfile edits Tilt re-evaluates the entire Tiltfile on save Just save the file
Source code with live_update Files sync to container without rebuild Just save the file
Source code without live_update Full image rebuild triggers automatically Just save the file
Kubernetes manifests Resources re-apply automatically Just save the file
Frontend with HMR Browser updates via Hot Module Replacement Just save the file
Backend with watch tools Process restarts via nodemon/air/watchexec Just save the file

When Restart IS Actually Needed

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