[chuckadams]

That's what Vite is for: all the zip of esbuild plus HMR that works. Usually works anyway... looking at one project where I never have to reload, and another that I'm doing that every ten saves or so. Much sloppier legacy sources in the second tho, Vite really pays off when you write more modern code from the start.

[jampekka]

I rather hit Ctrl-R on each iteration than worry about whether I've hit the 1/10 buggy state on every change. With esbuild the reload is practically instant.

[chuckadams]

It was pretty infuriating wondering why my changes weren't taking effect, but like I said, it only hit me for that one project, and now I'm ready for it (I had to manually refresh every time beforehand anyway). It's a legacy codebase, I'm already used to intermittent nonsense like that. HMR never fails on the other project -- but now I've jinxed it for sure!