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JavaScript Hot Reloading your React App

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points
Posted by Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points

Losing state of my application when using react-hot-loader

Hey guys,

I was following How to Setup Webpack for React workshop, and when I got to the hot-reload video I started getting a few errors (I think it's because react-hot-reload is out of date on the video). Anyway I made it work but now when it automatically reloads, I lose state... Any ideas?

const webpack = require('webpack');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const path = require('path');

var webpackConfig = {
    entry: path.join(__dirname, 'src/js/index.js'),
    output: {
        path: path.join(__dirname, 'build'),
        filename: 'bundle.js'
    },
    module: {
        loaders: [
// this is different now
            { loaders: ['react-hot-loader/webpack', 'babel'], test: /\.js$/, exclude: /node_modules/ },
            { loader: 'style!css!sass', test: /\.scss$/ }
        ]
    },
    plugins: [
        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
            template: path.join(__dirname, 'src/index.html')
        }),
// this is also different now
        new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin()
    ]
};

module.exports = webpackConfig;