LiveWire

LiveWire is a PaperMC plugin designed to make plugin development easier by enabling hot-reloading of plugins on your Minecraft server.

When you upload a .jar to a special folder, LiveWire detects the change and automatically handles unloading the old version and loading the new one — no server restart required.

Caution

LiveWire is designed to accelerate development workflows. While it's a powerful tool for testing and iteration, it is not recommended for use in production environments, as hot-reloading may introduce instability or unexpected behavior.

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🛠️ How to Use

Once installed, using LiveWire is simple:

1. Build or obtain the .jar file for your plugin.
2. Drop the .jar into the /livewire folder.
3. LiveWire will automatically:

• Detect the file
• Unload any previously loaded version of the plugin
• Load the new version

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📦 Installation

1. Download the latest version of LiveWire.jar
2. Drop it into your server's /plugins folder
3. Start or restart the server
4. A /livewire folder will be created in your server root (next to /plugins)
5. Place plugin .jar files into /livewire to have them hot-reloaded

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⚙️ Configuration

LiveWire includes a simple config file to ignore specific plugins by name using regular expressions.

If a dependency doesn't like being hot-reloaded, you can exclude it here.

config.yml

ignore:
  - "^SomePlugin.*"
  - "testplugin"