How are people doing livereload? about webpack-stream HOT 9 CLOSED

So are you guys actually using gulp-webpack and then working webpack-dev-server into it somehow or using webpack directly and passing the compiler into webpack-dev-server? Any gist's that you have of the basic setup, might make it clearer?

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I'm just using webpack-dev-server. For my app I've found that webpack is flexible enough that I can do most things without having to use gulp at all.

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I'm also using webpack-dev-server along with react-hot-loader. Gulp is doing only very high-level task orchestration (like deciding which webpack mode will run — dev or production). Everything is done in webpack and it's awesome.

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We have this kind of setup.

var gulp = require('gulp');
var $ = require('gulp-load-plugins')({
  pattern: 'gulp{-,.}*',
  replaceString: /gulp(\-|\.)/,
  camelize: true
});
var webpack = require('webpack');

var webpackTask = function(config, dst) {
  return gulp.src(paths.src.js)
    .pipe($.webpack(config, webpack))
    .pipe(gulp.dest(dst));
};

gulp.task('webpack:client', function() {
  var config = require('./webpack.config.client');
  return webpackTask(config, './dev/client/js');
});

And in server.js we check if running in development mode then fire up webpack-dev-server.

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Here is how I'm currently doing live-reload with Webpack and BrowserSync:

https://github.com/kriasoft/React-Seed/blob/88eabc907aa0f3f8be6a00663f265cbc94262276/gulpfile.js#L114-L141

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@koistya Thanks! Just wondering what embedding the livereload snippet in html files?

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@avanderhoorn BrowserSync has a built-in LiveReload functionality, unfortunately it doesn't support Webpack HMR yet, but maybe it will be introduced in the next release:

BrowserSync/browser-sync#246

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Big thanks this really helped and got it all up and running.

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@avanderhoorn how did you get HMR to work?

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