Understanding Hot Reload Limits

Understanding Hot Reload Limits is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by skydoves in compose-performance-skills.

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Install Understanding Hot Reload Limits

Copy Understanding Hot Reload Limits into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills/tree/main/hot-reload/understanding-hot-reload-limits ~/.claude/skills/understanding-hot-reload-limits

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: hot-reload/understanding-hot-reload-limits/SKILL.md in skydoves/compose-performance-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/understanding-hot-reload-limits
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Understanding Hot Reload Limits does

Understanding Hot Reload Limits explains which Kotlin and Compose edits HotSwan can hot-reload and which changes force a rebuild under ART schema rules. Use it when a change did not reload, before a refactor, or when planning edits to stay on the fast path.

Understanding Hot Reload Limits is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Understanding Hot Reload Limits comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, android, claude, claude-code and compose.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Understanding Hot Reload Limits: stay inside the fast path

Android Runtime (ART) enforces strict rules for class redefinition: a redefined class must have an identical schema (fields, method signatures, interfaces) as the previous version. Only method bodies are mutable at runtime. HotSwan automatically detects schema changes and falls back to a full incremental build, so failures are not silent. Knowing the boundary in advance is what keeps an iteration loop sub-second instead of multi-second.

When to use this skill

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Understanding Hot Reload Limits

What else does skydoves publish alongside Understanding Hot Reload Limits?
Understanding Hot Reload Limits is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from skydoves/compose-performance-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auditing Compose Performance, Avoiding Subcomposition Pitfalls and Choosing DerivedStateOf. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Understanding Hot Reload Limits does, and is maintained by skydoves in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the skydoves/compose-performance-skills page.
How does Understanding Hot Reload Limits compare to other Frontend skills?
Understanding Hot Reload Limits ranks #519 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Understanding Hot Reload Limits against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.