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What I mean by "live reloading" is that when you for example save a TypeScript file, esbuild does an incremental build and your webpage can check for that and r
by auggierose 2y ago
What I mean by "live reloading" is that when you for example save a TypeScript file, esbuild does an incremental build and your webpage can check for that and reload. There is no state maintained. I think maintaining state would be a very difficult problem to solve correctly. Actually, I think that is impossible, and invites all sorts of heisenbugs, working only for simple cases.
- lyxell 2y agoI’ve used both standalone esbuild as well as Vite for hundreds of hours and HMR works flawlessly in React using Vite, it’s the only reason I use Vite instead of just using esbuild directly. I suggest you to try it out.
- ativzzz 2y agoI've been working with web apps for a long time and have always turned live reloading off whenever I can. My code editor always auto saves changes so i just alt tab to browser and refresh to see changes With live reload, often what happens, especially as projects get larger, is the watcher takes longer to trigger so the live reload is slower than just alt-tabbing, and it sometimes goes off on its own, probably due to multiple quick file changes, which is really annoying I've never enjoyed this feature
- ddoolin 2y agoIt must not be that difficult as I use it every day in my Vite project. To be clear I am no Vite evangelist, but it does maintain existing state when it live reloads modules, it doesn't just refresh the page.