react-hot-boilerplate

The minimal dev environment to enable live-editing React components.

Based on the guide available at https://webpack.js.org/guides/hmr-react/

Usage

npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:3000

Now edit src/App.js.
Your changes will appear without reloading the browser like in this video.

Linting

This boilerplate project includes React-friendly ESLint configuration.

npm run lint

Building

A basic production script is included that builds your app to a dist folder

npm run build

Using 0.0.0.0 as Host

You may want to change the host in webpack.config.js from localhost to 0.0.0.0 to allow access from same WiFi network. This is not enabled by default because it is reported to cause problems on Windows. This may also be useful if you're using a VM.

Missing Features

This boilerplate is purposefully simple to show the minimal configuration for React Hot Loader. For a real project, you may want to add a router, styles and maybe combine dev server with an existing server. This is out of scope of this boilerplate, but you may want to look into other starter kits.

WebStorm

Because the WebStorm IDE uses "safe writes" by default, Webpack's file-watcher won't recognize file changes, so hot-loading won't work. To fix this, disable "safe write" in WebStorm.

Dependencies

• React
• Webpack
• webpack-dev-server
• babel-loader
• react-hot-loader

Resources

• Demo video
• react-hot-loader on Github
• Integrating JSX live reload into your workflow
• Troubleshooting guide
• Ping dan_abramov on Twitter or #reactjs IRC