{"id":1131,"date":"2025-05-16T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:11:51","slug":"why-flutter-hot-reload-doesnt-work-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/why-flutter-hot-reload-doesnt-work-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Hot Reload Sometimes not Reflect Changes in Flutter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hot reload is a powerful feature but has limitations. It doesn&#8217;t fully reload the app state or structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common Causes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stateful changes not detected<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adding new variables to a State class<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refactoring class names<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Global state changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Use of const or final values initialized outside build<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fixes:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Try <strong>Hot Restart<\/strong> instead:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yaml:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>r  # in terminal<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Or use IDE button \u2192 Hot Restart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Restart emulator if stuck<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clear build cache:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>bash:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>flutter clean\nflutter pub get\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rule of Thumb:<\/strong> Use Hot Reload for UI tweaks, Hot Restart for logic or state changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot reload is a powerful feature but has limitations. It doesn&#8217;t fully reload the app state or structure. Common Causes: Fixes: Yaml: Or use IDE button \u2192 Hot Restart. bash: Rule of Thumb: Use Hot Reload for UI tweaks, Hot Restart for logic or state changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flutter","category-mobile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}