Svelte Hot Reloading Issue

Question

Recently started playing with Svelte using the sveltejs template. Everything is working fine, however when I do any change in the files it doesn't hot reload the changes to the web browser, so I have to manually refresh the page to see the changes. Is there any option in the settings to enable that feature or is it not possible at this point?

Answer 1

The default template (https://github.com/sveltejs/template) uses Rollup, which doesn't support hot module reloading. The webpack version (https://github.com/sveltejs/template-webpack) will support HMR, but first we need to add some hooks to Svelte itself to make it possible. There's an issue you can track here — hopefully we'll be able to do this work soon.

Until then, Tholle's suggestion of using the livereload plugin is probably the best compromise.