I'm trying to setup hot module reloading in a react/typescript (with TSX) environment. I have used the react/redux real-world example as a model in getting things going, and this is what I have so far:
server.js
var webpack = require('webpack')
var webpackDevMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware')
var webpackHotMiddleware = require('webpack-hot-middleware')
var config = require('./webpack.config')
var app = new (require('express'))()
var port = 3000
var compiler = webpack(config)
app.use(webpackDevMiddleware(compiler, { noInfo: true, publicPath: config.output.publicPath }))
app.use(webpackHotMiddleware(compiler))
app.use(function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html')
})
app.listen(port, function(error) {
if (error) {
console.error(error)
} else {
console.info("==> 🌎 Listening on port %s. Open up http://localhost:%s/ in your browser.", port, port)
}
})
webpack.config.js
var path = require('path')
var webpack = require('webpack')
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
devtool: 'cheap-module-eval-source-map',
entry: [
'webpack-hot-middleware/client',
path.resolve('./src/index.tsx'),
],
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ template: './index.html' })
],
module: {
loaders: [
{ test: /\.tsx?$/, loader: 'ts-loader' }
]
},
resolve: {
extensions: ['', '.ts', '.tsx', '.js', '.json']
},
}
index.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import Root from './containers/root';
render(
<Root />,
document.getElementById('root')
);
containers/root.tsx
import * as React from 'react';
export default class Root extends React.Component<void, void> {
render(): JSX.Element {
return (
<p>boom pow</p>
);
}
}
Changing <p>boom pow</p>
to <p>boom boom pow</p>
in the root element kicks off this in the javascript console in the browser:
[HMR] bundle rebuilding
client.js?3ac5:126 [HMR] bundle rebuilt in 557ms
process-update.js?e13e:27 [HMR] Checking for updates on the server...
process-update.js?e13e:81 [HMR] The following modules couldn't be hot updated: (Full reload needed)
This is usually because the modules which have changed (and their parents) do not know how to hot reload themselves. See http://webpack.github.io/docs/hot-module-replacement-with-webpack.html for more details.
process-update.js?e13e:89 [HMR] - ./src/containers/root.tsx
process-update.js?e13e:89 [HMR] - ./src/index.tsx
I've stepped through these steps as best I can tell, but am still having no luck.
What am I missing?
The problem, as mentioned by commenters, was missing in my loader - I'm not sure if this had anything to do with it, but I also switched to using babel after typescript - and having typescript compile to ES6. New config below:
var path = require('path')
var webpack = require('webpack')
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
devtool: 'cheap-module-eval-source-map',
entry: [
'webpack-hot-middleware/client',
path.resolve('./src/index.ts'),
],
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ template: path.resolve('./src/index.html') })
],
module: {
loaders: [
{ test: /\.tsx?$/,
loaders: [
'react-hot',
'babel?presets[]=es2015',
'ts-loader'
]
},
{ test: /\.json$/,
loader: 'json'
}
]
},
resolve: {
extensions: ['', '.ts', '.tsx', '.js', '.json']
},
}