webpack dev server ignoring scss changes - javascript

I managed to compress / compile my js and scss files with webpack. The scss file gets extracted by the 'extract-text-webpack-plugin' into an external css file. Here is the code:
var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
require('es6-promise').polyfill();
module.exports = {
entry: ['./js/app'],
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, 'js'),
publicPath: 'js',
filename: 'app.min.js'
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
compressor: {
warnings: false,
},
}),
new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
new ExtractTextPlugin("../css/styles.min.css", {allChunks: false})
],
module: {
loaders: [{
test: /\.scss$/,
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("style-loader", "css-loader!sass-loader")
}]
}
}
When I run now "webpack-dev-server js/app.js" - it gets my changes in the js file itself (alert for example) but does not remark changes in the css file.
This is the app.js:
var $ = require('jquery');
require('../css/styles.scss');
alert('Hi');
I guess the problem is connected to the ExtractTextPlugin. Then again I have no clue how to workaround. Any tips or ideas?

Okay, I got that going. When starting the webpack-dev-server, I'm just asking if we are in production enviroment:
const live = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
if(live) {
...
} else {
...
}
If we are not in production, it misses the ExtractTextPlugin out.
Finally to deploy my changes I type:
NODE_ENV=production webpack -p
One can also use a npm script to shorten this.

Related

Unable to set up hot module reload HMR for Symfony Webpack

I am currently using manual reloads with npx webpack which are time consuming.
So, attempting to implement HMR using Webpack docs and this tutorial
It does not throw any errors when I run npm start, tells me that files were generated but the files are not available in the destination directory /dist. If they are placed somewhere else, I could not find.
Also, the HMR as such seems to be working in the sense that it automatically recompiles once changes are made to the app files.
It automatically opens localhost:8080 as well, but shows only the directory list or a message like CANNOT GET.
By the way, I do not use Symfony Encore.
The directory looks like this:
- bin
- client // where the React files are
- config // Symfony
- node_modules
- public
- dist // here goes Webpack's output ( normally )
- index.php
- src // Symfony app files
- templates - Twig
- var
- vendor
webpack.config.js
The above webpack.config.js looks like below, in the latest config attempt
const webpack = require('webpack');
const { InjectManifest } = require('workbox-webpack-plugin');
const ManifestPlugin = require('webpack-manifest-plugin');
const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const ExtractCssChunks = require('extract-css-chunks-webpack-plugin');
const HardSourceWebpackPlugin = require('hard-source-webpack-plugin');
const path = require('path');
const useDevServer = true;
const publicPath = useDevServer ? 'http://localhost:8080/public/dist/' : '/dist/';
console.log('path', path.resolve(__dirname, 'public/dist'));
console.log('public path', publicPath);
module.exports = {
mode: 'development',
entry: './client/index.js',
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public/dist'),
filename: '[name].[hash].js',
publicPath,
},
devtool: 'inline-source-map',
module: {
....
},
devServer: {
// contentBase: './dist',
hot: true,
allowedHosts: [
'http://127.0.0.1:8000',
'http://127.0.0.1:8001',
'http://localhost:8000',
'http://localhost:8001',
],
},
plugins: [
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
...

How to auto-rebuild bundle with webpack-dev-server without run command again?

I'm a newbie in webpack and I'm using webpack 4 for my project. But I have a problem, I have some file scripts. In the first time to build with webpack dev server, it's run okay. But when server running, I continue create a new file script(example: c.js), rename or delete the exist file the server not auto build this script to main.js. How can automatic webpack rebuild my new file(c.js) to main.js without run command again?
This is my repo on github:
https://github.com/aiduc93/webpack4-scss-pug-es6
You can follow this step to reproduce my problem:
Step 1: start server with 'npm run dev' and run localhost:3000 in browser.
Step 2: when server running, we create new file(c.js), you can copy my code in hide.js or show.js and change the pluginName to 'anything'(ie: pluginName='clickable')
Step 3: go to index.pug, create new p tag with data-clickable(ie: p(data-clickable) clickable)
Step 4: refresh page in browser and click to text clickable. Js will not run because it not recompile.
This is my structure
//folder javascript in project
javascript
| hide.js
| show.js
| server.js
//folder dist after build
dist
| main.js
This is script in package.json
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"dev": "webpack-dev-server --inline --hot",
"build": "webpack --mode production"},
This is webpack.config.js
const path = require('path');
const glob = require('glob');
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
const WebpackMd5Hash = require('webpack-md5-hash');
const CleanWebpackPlugin = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
const CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
const BrowserSyncPlugin = require('browser-sync-webpack-plugin')
module.exports = {
entry: { main: glob.sync('./src/**/*.js*')} ,
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
filename: 'main.js',
},
devtool: 'inline-source-map',
watch: true,
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.pug$/,
use: ["html-loader", "pug-html-loader"]
},
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: ["babel-loader"]
},
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: ExtractTextPlugin.extract(
{
fallback: 'style-loader',
use: [ 'css-loader', 'sass-loader']
})
},
{
type: 'javascript/auto',
test: /\.json$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'file-loader',
options: {
name: "./plugin-config/[name].[ext]"
}
}
]
}
]
},
devServer: {
contentBase: path.join(__dirname, "dist"),
compress: true,
inline: true,
port: 3000,
// historyApiFallback: true,
hot: true
},
plugins: [
new ExtractTextPlugin(
{ filename: 'style.css'}
),
new CleanWebpackPlugin('dist', { watch: true,
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
inject: false,
hash: true,
template: './src/index.html',
}),
new WebpackMd5Hash(),
]
};
In webpack 4 only real entry-points are entry-points, this means, no vendor-scripts, plugins...in entry.
You cannot use glob here beause it creates an array of all js-files and only server.js is your real entry-point for your application!
Adding a js-file to your wp project doesn't mean it will be compiled as you don't reference it anywhere, so wp cannot know that it is needed.
WP creates a dependency graph starting from the dependencies of your entry-point(s) and creates the bundle(s).
Your server.js is your entry-point and should look like this:
import "../stylesheets/style.scss";
import $ from 'jquery';
import "./clickable" // without import no recompile!
import "./hide"
import "./show"
console.log("his");
console.log("hello, world23");
The entry-point in your webpack.config.js:
module.exports = {
entry: {
main: path.resolve(__dirname, "./src/javascripts/server.js")
},

Webpack DllPlugin with gulp: Cannot find module '... vendor-manifest.json'

I have a rather large React application built with webpack 2. The application is embedded into a Drupal site as a SPA within the existing site. The Drupal site has a complex gulp build setup and I can't replicate it with webpack, so I decided to keep it.
I have split my React application into multiple parts using the DllPlugin / DllReferencePlugin combo which is shipped out of the box in webpack 2. This works great, and I get a nice vendor-bundle when building with webpack.
The problem is when I try to run my webpack configuration in gulp, I get an error. I might be doing it wrong, as I have not been able to find much documentation on this approach, but nevertheless, it's not working for me.
It looks like it's trying to include the the manifest file from my vendor-bundle before creating it.
Whenever I run one of my defined gulp tasks, like gulp react-vendor I get an error, saying that it cannot resolve the vendor-manifest.json file.
If I on other hand run webpack --config=webpack.dll.js in my terminal, webpack compiles just fine and with no errors.
I have included what I think is the relevant files. Any help on this is appreciated.
webpack.config.js
// Use node.js built-in path module to avoid path issues across platforms.
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
// Set environment variable.
const production = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
const appSource = path.join(__dirname, 'react/src/');
const buildPath = path.join(__dirname, 'react/build/');
const ReactConfig = {
entry: [
'./react/src/index.jsx'
],
output: {
path: buildPath,
publicPath: buildPath,
filename: 'app.js'
},
module: {
rules: [
{
exclude: /(node_modules)/,
use: {
loader: "babel-loader?cacheDirectory=true",
options: {
presets: ["react", "es2015", "stage-0"]
},
},
},
],
},
resolve: {
modules: [
path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules'),
'./react/src/'
],
extensions: ['.js', '.jsx', '.es6'],
},
context: __dirname,
devServer: {
historyApiFallback: true,
contentBase: appSource
},
// TODO: Split plugins based on prod and dev builds.
plugins: [
new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({
context: path.join(__dirname, "react", "src"),
manifest: require(path.join(__dirname, "react", "vendors", "vendor-manifest.json"))
}),
new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
name: 'manifest',
filename: 'webpack-loader.js'
}),
]
};
// Add environment specific configuration.
if (production) {
ReactConfig.plugins.push(
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()
);
}
module.exports = [ReactConfig];
webpack.dll.js
const path = require("path");
const webpack = require("webpack");
const production = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
const DllConfig = {
entry: {
vendor: [path.join(__dirname, "react", "vendors", "vendors.js")]
},
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, "react", "vendors"),
filename: "dll.[name].js",
library: "[name]"
},
plugins: [
new webpack.DllPlugin({
path: path.join(__dirname, "react", "vendors", "[name]-manifest.json"),
name: "[name]",
context: path.resolve(__dirname, "react", "src")
}),
// Resolve warning message related to the 'fetch' node_module.
new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/\/iconv-loader$/),
],
resolve: {
modules: [
path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules'),
],
extensions: ['.js', '.jsx', '.es6'],
},
// Added to resolve a dependency issue in this build #https://github.com/hapijs/joi/issues/665
node: {
net: 'empty',
tls: 'empty',
dns: 'empty'
}
};
if (production) {
DllConfig.plugins.push(
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()
);
}
module.exports = [DllConfig];
vendors.js (to determine what to add to the Dll)
require("react");
require("react-bootstrap");
require("react-dom");
require("react-redux");
require("react-router-dom");
require("redux");
require("redux-form");
require("redux-promise");
require("redux-thunk");
require("classnames");
require("whatwg-fetch");
require("fetch");
require("prop-types");
require("url");
require("validator");
gulpfile.js
'use strict';
const gulp = require('gulp');
const webpack = require ('webpack');
const reactConfig = require('./webpack.config.js');
const vendorConfig = require('./webpack.dll.js');
// React webpack source build.
gulp.task('react-src', function (callback) {
webpack(reactConfig, function (err, stats) {
callback();
})
});
// React webpack vendor build.
gulp.task('react-vendor', function (callback) {
webpack(vendorConfig, function (err, stats) {
callback();
})
});
// Full webpack react build.
gulp.task('react-full', ['react-vendor', 'react-src']);
NOTE:
If I build my vendor-bundle with the terminal with webpack --config=webpack.dll.js first and it creates the vendor-manifest.json file, I can then subsequently successfully run my gulp tasks with no issues.
This is not very helpful though, as this still will not allow me to use webpack with gulp, as I intend to clean the build before new builds run.
I ended up using the solution mentioned in the end of my question. I build my DLL file first and then I can successfully run my gulp webpack tasks.
One change that can make it easier to debug the issue, is to use the Gulp utility module (gulp-util) to show any webpack errors that might show up during build of webpack, using gulp.
My final gulp setup ended up looking like this:
gulpfile.js
'use strict';
const gulp = require('gulp');
const gutil = require('gulp-util');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const reactConfig = require('./webpack.config.js');
const vendorConfig = require('./webpack.dll.js');
// React webpack source build.
gulp.task('react', function (callback) {
webpack(reactConfig, function (err, stats) {
if (err) {
throw new gutil.PluginError('webpack', err);
}
else {
gutil.log('[webpack]', stats.toString());
}
callback();
});
});
// React webpack vendor build.
gulp.task('react-vendor', function (callback) {
webpack(vendorConfig, function (err, stats) {
if (err) {
throw new gutil.PluginError('webpack', err);
}
else {
gutil.log('[webpack]', stats.toString());
}
callback();
});
});
// React: Rebuilds both source and vendor in the right order.
gulp.task('react-full', ['react-vendor'], function () {
gulp.start('react');
});
I hope this might help someone in a similar situation.
Whenever I run one of my defined gulp tasks, like gulp react-vendor I get an error, saying that it cannot resolve the vendor-manifest.json file.
Your gulpfile.js contains this:
const reactConfig = require('./webpack.config.js');
const vendorConfig = require('./webpack.dll.js');
And webpack.config.js contains this:
new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({
context: path.join(__dirname, "react", "src"),
manifest: require(path.join(__dirname, "react", "vendors", "vendor-manifest.json"))
}),
The require() calls are currently all executed immediately. Whenever you run Gulp, it will evaluate both Webpack configuration files. As currently configured, Node runs the code in webpack.config.js at startup, and from there it sees the require() used in your creation of the DllReferencePlugin, so it will also try to read manifest.json at that time and turn it into an object...which is before it has been built.
You can solve this in one of two ways:
The DllReferencePlugin's manifest option supports either an object (which is what you are currently providing), or else a string containing the path of the manifest file. In other words, it should work if you remove the require() from around your path.join(...) call.
Alternatively, you can also defer the loading of the Webpack config files. Moving your const reactConfig = require('./webpack.config.js'); from the top of the file directly into the gulp task function should be sufficient, assuming that this function is not invoked until after the manifest has been built.

Webpack: Taking a long time to build

I have an issue with webpack build times in my react application. Everything builds fine but it takes a long time.
Even I change just the JavaScript files the CSS rebuilds?
Also the CSS compilation is taking a longer than I think it should be (correct me if I am wrong)?
I am running a Core i7 with 16gb of Ram and the build is taking about a minute which is becoming very annoying during development when it's a one line change and you have to wait near enough a minute before you can see your changes in the browser?
Is this the wrong approach?
const CleanObsoleteChunks = require('webpack-clean-obsolete-chunks');
const BundleAnalyzerPlugin = require('webpack-bundle-analyzer').BundleAnalyzerPlugin;
const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
const DashboardPlugin = require('webpack-dashboard/plugin');
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const BUILD_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, '../dist');
const APP_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/');
const config = {
devtool: 'source-map',
entry: {
"ehcp-coordinator": [
APP_DIR + '/index.js'
]
},
output: {
path: `${BUILD_DIR}/js/`,
filename: '[name].js',
chunkFilename: '[name]-chunk.js',
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['es2015', 'es2017', 'react', 'stage-0'],
plugins: ['transform-runtime', 'transform-decorators-legacy', 'transform-class-properties', 'syntax-dynamic-import',
["import", {"libraryName": "antd", "style": false}]]
}
}
}, {
test: /\.less$/,
use: ExtractTextPlugin.extract({
use: [{
loader: "css-loader"
}, {
loader: "less-loader"
}]
})
}
]
},
plugins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env.NODE_ENV': "'development'"
}),
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
'sourceMap': 'source-map'
}),
new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
name: 'vendor',
filename: '[name].js',
minChunks(module, count) {
var context = module.context;
return context && context.indexOf('node_modules') >= 0;
}
}),
new ExtractTextPlugin("../css/[name].css")
],
resolve: {
modules: [
path.resolve('./'),
path.resolve('./node_modules'),
],
extensions: ['.js', '.json']
}
};
module.exports = config;
As discussed in the comments, here are the most obvious changes you could make to speed up your build:
UglifyJsPlugin and ExtractTextPlugin are very heavy in terms of their impact on your compilation time, while not actually presenting many tangible benefits in development. Check process.env.NODE_ENV in your config script, and enable/disable them depending on whether you're doing a production build or not.
In place of ExtractTextPlugin, you can use style-loader in development to inject CSS into the head of the HTML page. This can cause a brief flash of unstyled content (FOUC) when the page loads, but is much quicker to build.
If you're not already, use webpack-dev-server rather than just running Webpack in watch mode - using the dev server compiles the files in memory instead of saving them to disk, which further decreases the compile times in development.
This does mean you'll have to manually run a build when you want to have the files written to disk, but you'll need to do that to switch to your production config anyway.
Not sure if this has any impact on performance, but the resolve section of your config doesn't meaningfully differ from the defaults, and you should be able to remove it without causing any issues.
In my case I updated devtool property to false.
Article on Medium: https://medium.com/#gagan_goku/hot-reloading-a-react-app-with-ssr-eb216b5464f1
Had to solve the same problem for my React app (HELO) with SSR. Things get complicated with SSR, but thankfully webpack gets a lot faster if you specify --mode=development, because it does it in memory.
webpack-dev-server did not work for me because I need the client.js bundle for the SSR client to work properly. Here's my setup:
webpack.config.js:
const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
entry: {
client: './src/client.js', // client side companion for SSR
// bundle: './src/bundle.js', // Pure client side app
},
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'assets'),
filename: "[name].js"
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
include: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
loader: "babel-loader",
options: {
presets: [
'#babel/preset-env',
{'plugins': ['#babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties']},
],
}
}
]
},
watchOptions: {
aggregateTimeout: 1000,
poll: 500,
ignored: /node_modules/,
}
};
package.json:
"scripts": {
// IMP: --mode=development
"run-dev-ssr": "webpack --config webpack.config.js --watch --mode=development & babel src -d dist --watch & browser-refresh dist/server.js"
}
.browser-refresh-ignore:
node_modules/
static/
.cache/
.*
*.marko.js
*.dust.js
*.coffee.js
.git/
# Add these files to ignore, since webpack is storing the compiled output to assets/ folder
src/
dist/
Build times without mode:
Hash: 81eff31301e7cb74bffd
Version: webpack 4.29.5
Time: 4017ms
Built at: 05/10/2019 9:44:10 AM
Hash: 64e10f26caf6fe15068e
Version: webpack 4.29.5
Time: 2548ms
Time: 5680ms
Time: 11343ms
Build times with mode:
Hash: 27eb1aabe54a8b995d67
Version: webpack 4.29.5
Time: 4410ms
Time: 262ms
Time: 234ms
Time: 162ms

Webpack dev server not auto-reloading

So I've setup webpack and webpack-dev-server, but webpack-dev-server does not auto-reload. If i modify a file and save it there is no change in the browser until I manually refresh.
Here is my webpack config and my script file that runs webpack-dev-server. Does anyone see anything that could be preventing auto-reload from working?
I put these together by reading through multiple tutorials, the docs, and by reading through the react-create-app generated files.
config/webpack.config.dev.js
'use strict';
const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const extractSass = new ExtractTextPlugin('style.css');
module.exports = {
entry : './src/index.jsx',
eslint: {configFile: './src/.eslintrc.json'},
module: {
loaders: [
{
exclude: /node_modules/,
include: ['src'],
loader: 'babel',
test : /(\.js|\.jsx)$/
},
{
exclude: /node_modules/,
include: ['src']
loader : extractSass.extract([ 'css', 'postcss', 'sass' ]),
test : /\.scss$/
}
],
preLoaders: [
{
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader : 'eslint',
query : {presets: [ 'react', 'latest' ]},
test : /(\.js|\.jsx)$/
}
]
},
output: {
filename : 'bundle.js',
path : 'dist',
publicPath: '/'
},
plugins: [
extractSass,
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
inject : true,
template: paths.appHtml
}),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin({multistep: true})
],
postcss: () => [
autoprefixer({
browsers: [
'>1%',
'last 4 versions',
'Firefox ESR',
'not ie < 9'
]
})
]
};
scripts/dev.js
run with $ yarn run dev
'use strict';
const WebpackDevServer = require('webpack-dev-server');
const config = require('../config/webpack.config.dev.js');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const compiler = webpack(config);
const server = new WebpackDevServer(compiler, {
clientLogLevel : 'warn',
compress : true,
contentBase : 'public',
filename : config.output.filename,
historyApiFallback: true,
hot : true,
inline : true,
lazy : false,
noInfo : true,
publicPath : '/',
quiet : true,
stats : 'errors-only',
watchOptions : {
aggregateTimeout: 300,
poll : 1000
}
});
server.listen(8080, 'localhost', () => {
console.log('Listening on port 8080');
});
According to the webpack dev server documentation you should add this entry point to the webpack configuration to support automatic refresh.
config.entry.unshift("webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:8080/");
jontem pointed out in his answer that my config was missing a webpack-dev-server client.
Here's the steps I took to apply his solution and also setup HMR.
config/webpack.config.dev.js
module.config = {
// ...
entry: [
// converted entry to an array
// to allow me to unshift the client later
path.resolve(__dirname, '../src/index.jsx')
],
// ...
module: {
loaders: {
// ...
{
// Use style loader instead of ExtractTextPlugin
// To allow for style injection / hot reloading css
exclude: /node_modules/,
loaders: [ 'style', 'css', 'postcss', 'sass' ],
test : /\.scss$/
},
// ...
}
}
}
scripts/dev.js
'use strict';
const WebpackDevServer = require('webpack-dev-server');
const config = require('../config/webpack.config.dev.js');
const webpack = require('webpack');
// unshift `webpack-dev-server` client
// and hot dev-server
config.entry.unshift('webpack-dev-server/client?/', 'webpack/hot/dev-server');
const compiler = webpack(config);
// ...
I had the same issue and the following configuration enabled static and the in-memory bundle auto-reloading. The key is to enable devServer.watchContentBase.
config/webpack.config.dev.js
...
module.exports = {
...
devServer: {
contentBase: ...,
publicPath: ...,
watchContentBase: true
},
...
}
package.json
{
...
"scripts": {
"develop": "webpack-dev-server --open --mode development --config config/webpack.config.dev.js",
...
}
...
}
Please add the following in your webpack config and try.
devServer: {
hot: true,
inline: true,
host: "localhost",
port: 8082,
watchOptions: {
poll: true
}
}
note: I was using webpack version ^3.11.0
I had a similar problem, fixed it by adding
watchOptions: {
poll: true
}
When I first installed the webpack starter, everything worked flawlessly, after a week of changes to webpack.config.js, it stopped working. I tinkered with various recommendations, the one that worked was watchOptions: {poll:true }
FYI I am webpack 4 with "webpack": "4.29.6", "webpack-cli": "^3.3.0", "webpack-dev-server": "3.3.1"
devServer: {
port: 3000,
contentBase: './',
watchOptions: {
poll: true
}
}
Also
if you use extract-loader, auto reload will not work
Hot Module Replacement feature
devServer: {
// ,,,
contentBase: '/your/path'
watchContentBase: true
hot: true,
},
prevents refresh your static files in web page, unless you press F5 button in browser
This third party webpack dev server documentation has the answer that I needed:
https://wohugb.gitbooks.io/webpack/content/dev_tools/webpack-dev-server.html
The relevant section reproduced below:
There is no inline: true flag in the webpack-dev-server configuration, because the webpack-dev-server module has no access to the webpack configuration. Instead the user have to add the webpack-dev-server client entry point to the webpack configuration.
To do this just add webpack-dev-server/client?http://: to (all) entry point(s). I. e. with the above configuration:
var config = require("./webpack.config.js");
config.entry.app.unshift("webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:8080");
var compiler = webpack(config);
var server = new webpackDevServer(compiler, {...});
server.listen(8080);
I also had the same issue and after adding this code line my problem solved. Now auto reloading worked
devServer : {
contentBase : './',
watchOptions : {
poll: true
}
}
For anyone experiencing this with Webpack v5, you need to set target to web in your config, like so:
module.exports = {
entry: "...",
target: "web",
.....
}

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