[Answered ]-Set up development environment for multiple Django apps in vagrant that allows instant update

The following snippet will use Django’s autoreloader to detect code changes, and hook into uWSGI to reload the code whenever necessary:

import uwsgi
from uwsgidecorators import timer
from django.utils import autoreload

@timer(3)
def change_code_gracefull_reload(sig):
    if autoreload.code_changed():
        uwsgi.reload()

You can put this code in your wsgi.py file before get_wsgi_application(). The decorator will register the function to be run every 3 seconds by uWSGI.

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–touch-reload

As I known this arg is used for a specific configuration .ini file.
Please try with option --py-autoreload 1.

At development phase, I think you can use Nginx proxy directly to default runserver or runserver_plus (please check django-extensions)