What is the purpose of reloading a plugin?

Its help to develop plugins a little faster / easier. Because you do not increase the version but want to have the new code for the plugin.

@msrba: My concern is mostly about exposing something that is only useful to developers to all users. I haven't noticed it being a problem in my experience but I'd be curious to hear from others on if it seems like something we'd want to do.

cc: @mbbroberg, @bjray, @jcooklin, @kjlyon.

Hey @IRCody and @msrba this is a great feature of a proper dev environment for plugins. I'd like a tool that wraps up a plugin dev environment and has helpful tools and keep those separate from the CLI/API. If someone in our community had the time, it'd be awesome to fork something like Lita's dev environment and make it a plugin dev environment. It could then have a tool like plugin that includes subcommands like reload, and these are wrappers to snaptel.

Q1: What do you think @msrba?
Q2: Any interest in working on something like that?

Either way, thanks for opening this issue. It's important to think through the opportunities to optimize developing a plugin so everyone wants to do so.

I like the idea to have an fast up environment for plugin development.