Editing index.html does not trigger a reload

I’d say this is pretty minor, but I noticed when I updated my index.html <title> it did not trigger a browser reload. I did however see it on manual refresh.

I also noticed that I wasn’t exactly clear on how index.html maps to index.js, when I started digging through webpack.config.dev.js. I saw a few comments in there, while looking through it briefly to see if I could resolve this locally and perhaps send a PR. I’m extremely new to webpack, so I don’t dig around in here too much yet (and I don’t eject really either).

Thanks!

[gaearon]

@SpaceK33z I am seeing the same issue when editing any of the JS files with this configuration - is this the same issue:

If edits to JS don’t reload the page, please check https://webpack.github.io/docs/troubleshooting.html#watching.

In particular, “safe write” option in some IDEs might cause this: https://webpack.github.io/docs/webpack-dev-server.html#working-with-editors-ides-supporting-safe-write

[SpaceK33z]

Debugged this a little further; because hot modus is enabled, webpack-dev-server doesn’t perform a page reload itself, but passes the hot update through to the window so the webpack bundle can perform a XHR request to get the hot updates. However, and I don’t know why, it should fall back to the reloading the page if it can’t find the hot update.

TL;DR - it’s a bug in webpack.