&gt; Instead of waiting several minutes for reload, I just load in new code manually (typically I change only 1-2 files per reload). If something breaks - hey, it&#x27;s only dev server.<p>Someone wrote a module for elixir that uses inotify (and similar) to -I think- watch .beam files for modification and perform the required hot-reloads automatically.<p>I would be reluctant to run this in production, and I can see situations (even in development) where this could trigger unwanted code purging and would be disastrous, but it&#x27;s a pretty neat thing to have and -it seems- a must for Web Dev people.