[stephenr]

Since when does native/plain nodejs reload the source file(s) it’s running when they’re changed on disk?

[krapp]

I'm not talking about the limitations of Node.js, I'm talking about javascript as it's deployed to the web, from a server, running in the browser.

That use case, the one for which the language was intended, does indeed work as described, and has for decades.

[stephenr]

Right, I didn’t get that at all from your original post.