As designed Templates don't sync back into XF in the ACP

[Robust]

Affected version

2.0.1

Discovered an undocumented feature.

Looks like if I edit a template in _output and refresh a page in the normal frontend, changes sync as they should into the templates. However, if I make an edit and only refresh within the ACP changes will not be synced. They only sync if you make a refresh on the frontend.

 

[Jeremy P]

The templates only sync back when they are rendered, I think this is as-designed.

 

[Chris D]

Indeed. We have a "template watcher" that happens in dev mode when the templates are rendered for a given page. If the templates we're rendering contain a different hash to the ones we have already compiled from then the template will be re-imported from dev output before rendering.