Consider Having Development Rails Load Assets from the Webpack Dev Server

[justin808]

There's some techniques in this article that are worth exploring.

http://kevinold.com/2015/02/04/configure-webpack-dev-server-and-react-hot-loader-with-ruby-on-rails.html

[justin808]

Incidentally, so far, we've found that it's not particularly useful to be doing hot-reload with rails. Instead, be testing in node.js mode for prototyping, and using Rails for the full stack. No half and half.