Faster UD Dashboard Development with UDHotReloader

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I love this.
I create a multi-file structure such as :

dashboard.ps1 (Start the dashboard file located in src/Root.ps1)

  • src
  • src/pages (Each page is a PS1 file in the pages folder)
  • src/Endpoints (Each endpoints is a PS1 file)

I had a small personal issue with the UDHotReloader because I couldn’t use it to update the endpoints the same way I was updating to the dashboard.

I came up with a solution for IIS where I use a modified UDHotReloader that will restart the designated web apppool instead of updating the dashboard when a file from the Endpoints folder is modified.

The core change is:

 if ($event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath -like '*\Endpoints\*' ) {
                    Restart-WebAppPool -Name $event.MessageData.AppPool
                } else {
                    Update-UDDashboard -Url $event.M$EessageData.Url -UpdateToken $event.MessageData.UpdateToken -FilePath $event.MessageData.Root
                }

(You’ll also need to add the $Apppool variable to the function definition and to the MessageData of the Register-ObjectEvent section)

I am leaving the gist here for anyone interested:

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