No, and while there is a capability to hot reload releases (so that you could preserve state while deploying an update, for example), in practice almost no uses

No, and while there is a capability to hot reload releases (so that you could preserve state while deploying an update, for example), in practice almost no uses it because it is complicated. In practice, if you care about this aspect of user experience you may have to take some reasonably small steps to preserve state information in the client. Form state gets preserved automatically for most purposes, though there may be some forms that need to implement a call-back to preserve state, as explained in the docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/form-bindings.html#recovery-following-crashes-or-disconnects https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/form-bindings.html#reco...