# `dioxus-hot-reload`: Hot Reloading Utilites for Dioxus


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## Overview

Dioxus supports hot reloading for static parts of rsx macros. This enables changing the styling of your application without recompiling the rust code. This is useful for rapid iteration on the styling of your application.


Hot reloading could update the following change without recompiling:
```rust
rsx! {
    div {
        "Count: {count}",
    }
}
```
=>
```rust
rsx! {
    div {
        color: "red",
        font_size: "2em",
        "Count: {count}",
    }
}
```

But it could not update the following change:
```rust
rsx! {
    div {
        "Count: {count}",
    }
}
```
=>
```rust
rsx! {
    div {
        "Count: {count*2}",
        onclick: |_| println!("clicked"),
    }
}
```

## Usage

> For hot relaoding with the web renderer, see the [dioxus-cli](https://github.com/DioxusLabs/cli) project.

For renderers that support hot reloading add this to your main function before you launch your app to start the hot reloading server:

```rust
fn main(){
    hot_reload_init!();
    // launch your application
}
```

The dev server watches on the `src` and `examples` folders in the crate directory by default. To watch on custom paths pass the paths into the hot relaod macro:

```rust
fn main(){
    hot_reload_init!("src", "examples", "assets");
    // launch your application
}
```

By default the hot reloading server will output some logs in the console, to disable these logs pass the `disable logging` flag into the macro:

```rust
fn main(){
    hot_reload_init!("src", "examples", "assets", disable logging);
    // launch your application
}
```

## Implementing hot reloading for a custom renderer

To add hot reloading support to your custom renderer you can use the connect function. This will connect to the dev server you just need to provide a way to transfer `Template`s to the `VirtualDom`. Once you implement this your users can use the hot_reload_init function just like any other render.

```rust
async fn launch(app: Component) {
    let mut vdom = VirtualDom::new(app);
    // ...

    let (tx, mut rx) = tokio::sync::mpsc::unbounded_channel();
    dioxus_hot_reload::connect(move |template| {
        let _ = tx.send(template);
    });

    loop {
        tokio::select! {
            Some(template) = rx.recv() => {
                // update the template in the virtual dom
                vdom.replace_template(template);
            }
            _ = vdom.wait_for_work() => {
                // ...
            }
        }
        let mutations = vdom.render_immediate();
        // apply the mutations to the dom
    }
}
```

## Contributing

- Report issues on our [issue tracker](https://github.com/dioxuslabs/dioxus/issues).
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## License
This project is licensed under the [MIT license].

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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in Dioxus by you shall be licensed as MIT without any additional
terms or conditions.