https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/

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codethoughts

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/

[frederikhors]

I opened DioxusLabs/dioxus#5311 after reading your amazing post. Unfortunately nothing works on my machine (Windows).

Plus, what are you using for graphql and rust?

[Tehnix]

Oh, I would not be surprised if there are some quirks on windows, I think the Dioxus team needed to get quite creative in order to get hot reloading working. I'm on macOS myself, although I have seen some spurious exits from the server, it's still be enough of a DX improvement that I keep running it.

For GraphQL using async-graphql, running axum locally and wrapped in a Lambda handler in production :)

[frederikhors]

Thanks.

I'm very curious to know how you organized the files to avoid async-graphql's long build times after each file change: the famous edit > build > run cycle.

I'm using a clean architecture pattern which takes very long time to rebuild on each change and is driving me crazy!