HMR is in early stages.

[justinmclaren]

I love the idea of this project but I'm having a lot of trouble using it for production applications at this point. I find the hot module reloading is very easy to break and it significantly slows down my iteration process. With the exact same app in Expo I don't have these problems. I'm grateful to the team for building what will probably be a great tool in the future, but I wouldn't recommend this for production yet. I'm happy to share my application code if it helps the team in any way.

[natew]

First, appreciate you taking the time to try it out and give feedback.

We also don’t recommend it for production yet. I made the “beta” label more prominent on the site recently too and made the FAQ more strongly worded against using it for anything more than experiments for now.

Hot reloading is the next big thing we’re setting out to improve. @zetavg is on the task now, first he did a really deep dive into making our CI and test suite much better, and we now have full end to end hot reloading integration tests.

Next up will be actually making it work better. The good news is I think we’ve done the hard part. We actually had a regression in hot reloading recently that we will patch and should get it to be better. But we’re dedicating a lot to HMR next.

My best guess is we won’t be production ready for most of this year, but we will get pretty close by summertime, enough for most startups to take the chance.

Making a new bundler work, plus a new framework, plus starter kits and all the features we want, is certainly a lot. Thanks for your support, i think just watch the repo and you’ll see we are focused on stabilizing this full time now.

[justinmclaren]

A multi-platform framework on top of Vite is a dream tool, so I'm not surprised there's a lot of work to do. Appreciate you guys for taking this on.