hot swapping with Angular + AMD

[ORESoftware]

Hi there-

I would like your help with this article- https://medium.com/@the1mills/hot-reloading-with-react-requirejs-7b2aa6cb06e1

I need someone to help me fact check it from an Angular perspective. let me know if you would be willing to provide some input

[apexskier]

Hi Alex,

I just read through the article and don't see any issues on a first pass. It looks to me like you're writing about hot reloading from a development perspective: pushing changes from the server to the front end with a direct refresh of the view. This repository describes the idea of pushing changes for a public user facing site without the user seeing a page reload.

From an angular perspective, a couple points:

• Angular services (the most "swappable" code, being untied to the DOM in a perfect world) are lazily loaded and cached. This means you'd need to get into that cache to update the new code, or refresh the html page and all resources. I think what you'd need to implement is analogous to the undef function you mention in your article.
• I'm not sure how you're actually loading the code fetched during the hotReload.hotReloadSimple operation, so I don't know if there would be any tricks there. You would probably want to inject the global angular variable in though.
• From my first point, your #allViews module is going to majorly slow down the initial bootstrapping of an angular application, as that lazy loading is essentially disabled.

Let me know if you have any other specific questions and I can provide what knowledge I have.