Zola Serve - CLI with skip folder

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Hello,

I’m working with +50K posts and is hard to wait for serve re-load when something is changed.

Is possible setup the places of the Listening for changes of the command zola serve?

Thanks

2

Have you tried zola serve --fast?

3

Thanks for your answer.
I tried but is not better, the same slow way in my case.

4

What are you changing, a template? --fast only renders the current markdown being edited. If you change the templates we do need to re-render everything

5

Wow good point! Yes, I’m changing the templates.

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Sounds like a solution might be renaming those +50K .md files for a bit while sprucing up templates.

for f in *.md; do mv -- "$f" "${f%.md}.md-keep"; done

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Thanks Adrian.

Yes, I’m doing it. Moving the folder to outside content directory:

mv content/blog blog

And to back:

mv blog content/blog

It works, but I need to move every time, if the option to skip was available would be more simple. But its ok.

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Can you test on a few .md files.

I often use a Makefile with a different config file.
Perhaps you can take advantage of the ignored_content directory in the config file. Remove it for config_prod

# A list of glob patterns specifying asset files to ignore when the content
# directory is processed. Defaults to none, which means that all asset files are
# copied over to the `public` directory.
# Example:
# ignored_content = ["*.{graphml,xlsx}", "temp.*", "**/build_folder"]

Makefile


build:
	$(ZOLA) build

build-prod:
	$(ZOLA) --config $(CONFIG_PROD) build
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Thank you very much Adrian!

I managed to do this, now I have the second config file to handle the prod settings.
I didn’t need the Makefile, I just configured my prod build to use the new configuration and everything is fine.
I took advantage and cleaned up and organized my config file to make it simpler and easier.
My problem has now been resolved, thank you very much

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All right. Good stuff.
But come one. Embrace the old school.

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