When working on UI, you want to see the results of your code changes as fast as possible. Waiting for apps to rebuild and relaunch, then getting the app to the desired state again only gets in your way.

Compose Hot Reload is a new JetBrains project that gives you live updates after code changes when running a Compose app on desktop - so you can see and feel how your app’s behaviour changes, without having to relaunch it at all. And you even get to keep your existing state!

In this talk, we’ll experience coding with Compose Hot Reload enabled with exciting live demos, and also learn a bit about how it all works under the hood.

If your project doesn’t have a desktop target yet… it might just be time to add one!