React native’s fast refresh is... I’m not even sure of the words to describe it. Revelatory? I had no idea it was possible to develop apps so quickly and seamlessly while maintaining state as you code. I thought edit and continue debugging was the holy grail in C# until I used fast refresh and redux. I would not be exaggerating by saying that I would choose react native as a technology strictly because of how much fast refresh speeds up development of GUIs (but it’s great for many other reasons too). I can’t wait for fast refresh to make its way into react web. We have several large, complex apps in ionic/Cordova/angular stack and now that ionic react is stable it won’t be long for us to jump off Angular altogether.

We have a large desktop application that hosts tabs of other react applications and provides windowing features, all built in Electron, that is written in React. we can edit a component within an app and save it and have the UI update with the same state and the new component change in under a second. react native fast refresh is even better because it’s understanding of life cycles and hooks is better but hot reloading within a react app is extremely performant for us. I wonder why you’re having to wait so long?