Incremental publish of your application on the Bluemix server

You can use incremental publish of your application deployed to the Bluemix server.

Before you begin

Create a project and deploy to the IBM Bluemix server.

About this task

In the past, a single line of code change required that you redeploy the entire application. With the introduction of incremental publish support, the tools can now publish only the changed files to Bluemix and the changes take place immediately without a redeploy of the entire application. After an application has been deployed to Bluemix, you can right clicking on the application from the Servers view and select Enable Development Mode. When the application is running in Development Mode, you can incrementally publish your application to the Bluemix server just as if you are doing local development.

Procedure

To use incremental publish of your application:

In the Servers view, expand your Bluemix server, right-click your project, and select Enable development mode:
In the Servers view, you can see that the application is in developing mode:
In the Servers view, right click your application inside the Bluemix server, and click Open Home Page. Your application appears in the internal browser.
In the Editor, make a change to your code, and then save the file. Right-click the Bluemix server and click Publish. Your change in code is uploaded to Bluemix without redeploying the entire application, and the results on the webpage appear in the browser.
To stop the application running in development mode, in the Servers view, expand your Bluemix server, right-click your project, and select Disable Development Mode:

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