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Webpack hot reloading using only webpack-dev-middleware. This allows you to add hot reloading into an existing server without webpack-dev-server.
This module is only concerned with the mechanisms to connect a browser client to a webpack server & receive updates. It will subscribe to changes from the server and execute those changes using webpack's HMR API. Actually making your application capable of using hot reloading to make seamless changes is out of scope, and usually handled by another library.
If you're using React then some common options are react-transform-hmr and react-hot-loader.
See example/ for an example of usage.
First, install the npm module.
npm install --save-dev webpack-hot-middleware
Next, enable hot reloading in your webpack config:
Add the following plugins to the plugins
array:
plugins: [
// OccurrenceOrderPlugin is needed for webpack 1.x only
new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
// Use NoErrorsPlugin for webpack 1.x
new webpack.NoEmitOnErrorsPlugin()
]
Occurence ensures consistent build hashes, hot module replacement is somewhat self-explanatory, no errors is used to handle errors more cleanly.
'webpack-hot-middleware/client'
into the entry
array.
This connects to the server to receive notifications when the bundle
rebuilds and then updates your client bundle accordingly.Now add the middleware into your server:
webpack-dev-middleware
the usual way
```js
var webpack = require('webpack');
var webpackConfig = require('./webpack.config');
var compiler = webpack(webpackConfig);app.use(require("webpack-dev-middleware")(compiler, {
noInfo: true, publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath
})); ```
Add webpack-hot-middleware
attached to the same compiler instance
app.use(require("webpack-hot-middleware")(compiler));
And you're all set!
Breaking Change
As of version 2.0.0, all client functionality has been rolled into this module. This means that you should remove any reference to webpack/hot/dev-server
or webpack/hot/only-dev-server
from your webpack config. Instead, use the reload
config option to control this behaviour.
This was done to allow full control over the client receiving updates, which is now able to output full module names in the console when applying changes.
More to come soon, you'll have to mostly rely on the example for now.
Configuration options can be passed to the client by adding querystring parameters to the path in the webpack config.
'webpack-hot-middleware/client?path=/__what&timeout=2000&overlay=false'
false
to disable the DOM-based client-side overlay.true
to auto-reload the page when webpack gets stuck.true
to disable informational console logging.true
to disable all console logging.true
to use webpack publicPath
as prefix of path
. (We can set __webpack_public_path__
dynamically at runtime in the entry point, see note of output.publicPath)false
to use to prevent a connection being automatically opened from the client to the webpack back-end - ideal if you need to modify the options using the setOptionsAndConnect
functiontrue
to enable client overlay on warnings in addition to errors.Note: Since the
ansiColors
andoverlayStyles
options are passed via query string, you'll need to uri encode your stringified options like below:
var ansiColors = {
red: '00FF00' // note the lack of "#"
};
var overlayStyles = {
color: '#FF0000' // note the inclusion of "#" (these options would be the equivalent of div.style[option] = value)
};
var hotMiddlewareScript = 'webpack-hot-middleware/client?path=/__webpack_hmr&timeout=20000&reload=true&ansiColors=' + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(ansiColors)) + '&overlayStyles=' + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(overlayStyles));
Configuration options can be passed to the middleware by passing a second argument.
app.use(require("webpack-hot-middleware")(compiler, {
log: false,
path: "/__what",
heartbeat: 2000
}));
false
to disable. Defaults to console.log
timeout
setting - usually set to half its value.The middleware installs itself as a webpack plugin, and listens for compiler events.
Each connected client gets a Server Sent Events connection, the server will publish notifications to connected clients on compiler events.
When the client receives a message, it will check to see if the local code is up to date. If it isn't up to date, it will trigger webpack hot module reloading.
If you're using multi-compiler mode (exporting an array of config in webpack.config.js
), set name
parameters to make sure bundles don't process each other's updates. For example:
// webpack.config.js
module.exports = [
{
name: 'mobile',
entry: {
vendor: 'vendor.js',
main: ['webpack-hot-middleware/client?name=mobile', 'mobile.js']
}
},
{
name: 'desktop',
entry: {
vendor: 'vendor.js',
main: ['webpack-hot-middleware/client?name=desktop', 'desktop.js']
}
}
]
Use the hapi-webpack-plugin.
koa-webpack-middleware wraps this module for use with Koa 1.x
koa-webpack can be used for Koa 2.x
If you want to use this module with browsers that don't support eventsource, you'll need to use a polyfill. See issue #11
This is because gzip generally buffers the response, but the Server Sent Events event-stream expects to be able to send data to the client immediately. You should make sure gzipping isn't being applied to the event-stream. See issue #10.
This module expects to remain running while you make changes to your webpack bundle, if you use a process manager like nodemon then you will likely see very slow changes on the client side. If you want to reload the server component, either use a separate process, or find a way to reload your server routes without restarting the whole process. See https://github.com/glenjamin/ultimate-hot-reloading-example for an example of one way to do this.
If you want to use multiple entry points in your webpack config you need to include the hot middleware client in each entry point. This ensures that each entry point file knows how to handle hot updates. See the examples folder README for an example.
entry: {
vendor: ['jquery', 'webpack-hot-middleware/client'],
index: ['./src/index', 'webpack-hot-middleware/client']
}
See LICENSE file.