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What do you mean? F5 refreshes the browser page. This has been the way to develop pages since the first browsers. And the original question was "Import a plai

What do you mean? F5 refreshes the browser page. This has been the way to develop pages since the first browsers. And the original question was "Import a plain js file without any node tooling and see what you get for free." You don't get hot reloading but you get all I wrote in my original comment and much more for free.

worksonmine 3y ago
Yes, I know I was just surprised it even checks for changes without being prompted, but I guess that's where all the resources go. The point I was trying to make was a response to your claim that hot reloading magically happens without "compiling", it doesn't (I know I know, it's transpiling in js). It usually goes something like this: some tool watches the file system for changes > trigger build > another tool in the chain injects changes into session > picked up by client to reflect changes, if done well without resetting state. These are many tools in a toolchain working well together. This DOES exist in other languages, incremental builds exists. You can save and restore a binary at a certain state, and it's less hassle than it is in js. One thing the systems development world has that I haven't seen in browser tools is radare/ghidra to follow code paths but it probably exists as a browser extension. The web is just reinventing and repackaging tools that have existed for decades. > you get all I wrote in my original comment and much more for free Yes, but `apt install gdb` is just as "free" as `apt install chrome` no? Everything you mentioned exists in systems development, you just haven't used it.