shiny-server not watching for file changes in Python app.

[avhz]

I have a Python Shiny app on a company server running via shiny-server. When I make changes to it, the changes are not reflected in the browser at the URL (changes are picked up for R Shiny apps though).

A workaround is to just rename the directory of the app, and rename it back, then shiny-server picks it up as 'new' app.

Is there a fix for this ?

Secondary question:

How can I get shiny-server to use my .venv for this specific app ?

Currently it uses system-wide (Ubuntu) Python packages, but this means I have to get IT to install every dependency for me.

Furthermore, it means we cannot have multiple apps requiring different versions of dependencies.

[DvGils]

To answer your second question: You can specify a relative path where you want shiny to look for a python environment in your /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf file.

You could, for instance, add python ./.venv/; at the top of the configuration file, telling shiny to look for a virtual environment at the root of an application directory.

More info: https://shiny.posit.co/py/docs/deploy-on-prem.html#deploy-to-shiny-server-open-source:~:text=Edit%20the%20file-,/etc/shiny%2Dserver/shiny%2Dserver.conf,-(root%20privileges%20are