Dev remotes appears to only work with the last alphabetized remote.

[bobsakson]

Using the React sample https://github.com/nrwl/react-module-federation, if you run

nx serve host --open --devRemotes=shop

You can modify the greeting.tsx and see the HMR work and update the component.

If you run

nx serve host --open --devRemotes=about

The HMR does not reload and the changes are not reflected.

[ryansevilla]

I'm seeing the same issue. Would love a fix.

[mikerhyssmith]

I wondered if anyone could point me in the general direction of where a fix for this might live - this is quite critical for us so I'm more than happy to submit a fix !

[Phat-RobinAI]

A workaround for us at the moment would be to always include the last alphabetized remote in your list of devRemotes e.g nx serve host --open --devRemotes=[remote you want hmr],[last alphabetized module]

[bigcakes]

Any updates here? This is still an issue on latest NX from what I can tell.

[jaysoo]

After some investigation, it looks like the behavior is coming from webpack's ModuleFederationPlugin. Since workspace libraries are shared by default, it is loading from the last remote, which happens to be served statically.

We will continue to look into this issue, but in the meantime you can unshare some workspace libraries using the following:

// module-federation.config.js
module.exports = {
  shared: (libName, libConfigFromNx) => {
    return libName === '@react-module-federation/shared-components'
      ? false
      : libConfigFromNx
  },
  // ...
};

This will force the remote app to load its own version of the workspace library. Be careful though, if the library requires shared state (like redux) then this strategy will not work. You also need to define this config for each app, so it might be good to have a base config at the workspace root and reuse it.

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[bigcakes]

Not stale, still an issue