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Do Javalin support any kind of hot-reload?

only whatever is supported natively on the jvm, so running in debug mode in intellij will get you hot reload of method bodies, but it won’t pick up new methods

Isn't it a critical issue for Javalin users, considering that virtually every alternative solution support hot-reload?

i thought so too, and i had an issue for working on it, but it’s only been brought up maybe 5 times total in 2-3 years with hundreds of thousands of downloads

I'm integrating Javalin with my KVision framework and it's just a matter of consistent, comfortable workflow and documentation. It already works with Ktor, Jooby and Spring Boot - and all three support hot-reload.

if you want to contribute a hot-reload plugin i would be very happy, but i don’t currently have the time to make one myself considering how low the demand is