Research Using React-Hot-Loader

[devloco]

This looks like the latest work:
react/create-react-app#5958

And here's the doc site:
http://gaearon.github.io/react-hot-loader/

[benjaminviaud]

Hello,

I come with you to know if you have implement the React Hot Loader or if you say me how to implement it ? I try to use it but it doesn't work.

Thanks for your work.

Ben

[devloco]

Hi @benjaminviaud,

It looks like react-hot-loader is obsolete now, replaced by Fast Refresh. See this post:

How should we set up apps for HMR now that Fast Refresh replaces react-hot-loader?

In particular, see Dan Abramov's comment on that post:
react/react#16604 (comment)

And, purely my opinion here, but I've used react-hot-loader in other projects, and I don't like it at all. It's untrustworthy. You always need a full browser refresh to be absolutely sure what you're seeing on screen is what your visitors/customers will see when the project is deployed. And once I realized that I was always manually refreshing anyway, I've never used it again.

I'm sure it makes for a cool demo. But for getting work done, I avoid it.

Anyway, if Facebook ever officially adds support for Fast Refresh (or any other tool), then Create React WPTheme will also get that feature (At this point create-react-wptheme is using a copy of the webpack.config.js file used by create-react-app with only the smallest changes (e.g. support for PHP files, etc.)).