Compose Hot Reload 🔥 is here, stop relaunching your app!

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Live code updates for a Compose Desktop app replace relaunching: Compose Hot Reload runs as a gradle plugin that starts a JBR with DCEVM, injects a Java agent, and streams new bytecode from a continuous Gradle compile to swap classes at runtime. UI state mostly survives, new composables and imports work, cross-module edits work, and only a few edge cases fail (changing a class supertype such as swapping lazyGrid vs lazyColumn). Requires a desktop JVM target.

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1. 0:00Introduction and demo
2. 5:31How hot reload works
3. 8:14Iterating on UI
4. 14:47Advanced features
5. 20:14Summary and resources
6. 21:48Q&A session

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