Local hot reload has slowed down

[shainaraskas]

Describe the bug

Not sure if there were intentional changes that would result in this behavior, but when I am working locally, anytime I save anything (as small as adding/deleting a single text character), the hot reload reloads the entire link index and re-processes all of the files. Reloading the page doesn't do anything until this process is finished. Feels like perhaps there was a regression or the hot reload could be refined to be a little speedier.

(after I edited this line, I hit cmd+s)

Screen.Recording.2026-03-03.at.4.11.16.PM.mov

Expected behavior

Only hot reload elements impacted by the thing I changed. especially wouldn't expect the xlink indexes needing to be re-pulled on hot reload

Steps to reproduce

1. in docs-content, docs-builder serve
2. edit any markdown file
3. cmd+s
4. observe longish hot reload of many things that were never touched

Tooling

• docs-builder
• migration tooling
• I'm not sure