After upgrading to Ignition 8.3, I noticed that I need to restart the Gateway every time I rebuild and test my module, which significantly increases development time.
Is there any recommended way to speed up the development cycle or reload modules without a full Gateway restart?
No, module reloading at runtime is completely gone. This wasn't a tradeoff we made lightly, but the increased stability at runtime was deemed worth it.
We're planning to add the ability to more easily deploy a module + restart the gateway via a Gradle task; see this thread: Issue Upgrading Third Party Modules
And for the particular case of reloading web assets, such as Perspective component data, there is a way to have the gateway always load assets from disk instead of your compiled module:
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