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qhot
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patrickelectric / qhot

qhot

Hot reload for nested qml files

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
229GitHub stars
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Hot reload for nested qml files

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-07-20 05:04:04 UTC to 2024-09-07 06:23:28 UTC.

012023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 2024

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Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20242024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> The big thing that sold me on QML over Widgets - other than the latter being the redheaded step child by this point - was implementing hot reloading. Having the entire UI completely refresh when changing the QML is definitely a nice coming from browser frontend, especially given Rust compile times. Interesting, are there any public examples on how to implement this? All tools I've seen to do this seemed to be commercial offerings, though maybe implementing it in an existing application is easier than I think. actually now that I'm looking again I found https://github.com/patrickelectric/qhot, which also looks promising
In Understanding the Layout Process in Qt Widgets
1. Yes, but I never found it limiting. If I need to write some complex logic I mostly do it on the C++ side (that's should probably be the best way anyway). 2. True. 3. Yes, Qt Creator is very lacking in that department. There are many instances where it doesn't recognize certain commands and you need to guess if you're writing correctly or not. 4. Live reloading is possible in QML. See[1] (But this should definitely be the default in Qt Creator). 5. I agree that QML documentation is lacking. That's probably my biggest pain point. Some of the examples also use deprecated/bad-practice code which is annoying (eg, using that magic `index` property rather than defining it as a required property. I think you have fair points. I actually have a doc with similar things that QML needs to improve in. I never tried Svelte but I'm familiar with Reac
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t, and I must say that Qt/QML is a breath of fresh air after using React. Developing in React always felt hacky like using duct tape and glue compared to building something properly which QML/QT feels like. Apart from the points above, I still think QML has been great for my productivity and I'm impressed how easy it is to develop with it complex UIs easily. I've been developing a feature in my Qt C++ app in QML that turns Markdown tasks into Kanban[2]. It worked out perfectly. The tasks processing is done in C++ which sends the data to QML. [1] https://github.com/patrickelectric/qhot#integrate-in-qtcreat... [2] https://i.imgur.com/C1O4Nbu.gif
In What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works

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