Technique for quickly developing the webapplication w/o having to reload server for every change?

[steolan]

I'm just changing styles and tweaking layout, positioning but every change seems to require a restart. Am I doing it wrong? Any way to do this better? (ie. On Angular/React, every change is instantaneous)

[Isomorphic]

Yes, something is definitely wrong. You should be able to just reload, and compilation happens automatically. For CSS styles, you should not have even have compilation (depending on whether you have GWT involved in the styling, which is also possible).

See the Debugging overview and SuperDevMode overviews for details.

https://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt...Debugging.html
https://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt...eshooting.html