Electron reload not working

Hi. First of all thanks for this great repository. Im pretty new working with Angular 4 so this problem may be because of that. The issue is that live reloading my app after changes in the code are done is not possible until i change app-routing.module.ts to this:

@NgModule({
    imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes, {useHash: true})],
    exports: [RouterModule]
})

Also i had to change index.html base href tag to be empty: <base href=""> all this to tell angular to work with hashbang style routes instead of html5 style routes.

The solution came from here.

¿is this the right solution or i’m missing something?

Thanks in advance, gr33ts from Chile.

[mariotaku]

For people who still have this issue, do a force app load if failed:

win.webContents.on('did-fail-load', () => win.loadURL(...));

[CPrescher]

The change to <base href=''> actually breaks reloading right now for routing without useHash=true.

It adds to every URL an extra backslash which cannot be resolved by the router e.g. it goes from “file” to “file/” which is quite annoying and it is hard to find out why this is happening.

I checked with electron and the reload seems to work for hashing and without it with the <base href='/'> at least for angular 9

Since the latest version of this repo is supporting angular 9, would it be possible to change the base element back, since there is no need for the href='' anymore and it only will provide confusion for future users who also do not want to use hashing.