How can one develop with PIXI by using hot-reloading or hot-swaping?

[demiculus]

What I want is a way to develop my game like Notch does in this video: 

 

or what playcanvas offers

What is a way for me to do this?

[ivan.popelyshev]

Learn how those code reload things work, then make your own - put pixi app in part that is not hot-reloaded.

Of course PixiJS wasnt made with hot reload in mind, it could cost a lot of architecture changes to take it into account, so you have to modify all the resource management accordingly.

Edited May 21, 2020 by ivan.popelyshev

[ivan.popelyshev]

naive approach - If you are working with hotswap editor like in codesandbox - you have to destroy pixi app on reload or all those applications will leave in memory. That's one of the problems to solve if you want a real hot swap

try {
  if (module.hot) {
    module.hot.dispose(function() {
      console.log("destroyed");
      app.destroy();
    });
  }
} catch (e) {}

 

[demiculus]

Damn seems like a lot of work, thanks for the info though.