alt Hacker News> Rails has a library that will refresh the page when files change without a full reload
What if you have a modal opened with some state?
Or a form filled with data?
Or some multi-selection in a list of items that triggers a menu of actions on those items?
Etc.
And it's true Vite can't always do HMR but it's still better than the alternative.
> What if you have a modal opened with some state?
Stimulus controllers can store state.
> Or a form filled with data?
Again, you can either use a Stimulus controller, or you can just render the data into the form response, depending on the situation.
> Or some multi-selection in a list of items that triggers a menu of actions on those items?
So, submenus? Again, you can either do it in a Stimulus controller (you can even trivially do things like provide a new submenu on the fly via Turbo), or you can pre-render the entire menu tree server-side and update just the portion that changes.
None of these are complex examples.