Reload is not available with electron

[bokzor]

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• I'm submitting a ... [ ] bug report [x ] feature request [ ] question about the decisions made in the repository

• Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Is it possible to reload the application when a refresh is executed during the launch ?

• What is the current behavior? For the moment after a refresh the application is not longer availaible (blanck page). I suppose It's because webpack is injecting the scripts in a specific way...

• If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via https://plnkr.co or similar (you can use this template as a starting point: http://plnkr.co/edit/tpl:AvJOMERrnz94ekVua0u5).

• What is the expected behavior? The application should reload and hit the route 'home /'

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? Better dev environment.

• Please tell us about your environment:

• Angular version: 4.x

• Browser: [all | Chrome XX | Firefox XX | IE XX | Safari XX | Mobile Chrome XX | Android X.X Web Browser | iOS XX Safari | iOS XX UIWebView | iOS XX WKWebView ]

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[okonon]

@colinskow I am seeing same thing as @bokzor could you point us in right direction? Thanks a lot

[okonon]

Actually never mind started to work for me :)

[colinskow]

I've noticed this too. Sometimes the app loads blank. This is caused by a race condition between the main and renderer Webpack builds on the dev server. If the renderer process build is not finished when Electron starts it generates an error. The only solution I've found is to refresh manually by hitting CTRL-R. This should never happen with your production builds.

[colinskow]

I checked my code and it appears I fixed this a while back by forcing the main build to finish before the renderer build starts. If you can reproduce this with the latest version of the repo, feel free to re-open.

[mrmashal]

@colinskow Could you please tell me where was the fix? I have replaced some theme for the src/app (along with some required adjustments) and I'm facing the blank screen on page reload. I'm not sure if I've accidentally overwritten some important code. The theme does not use ngrx; Could it be related to the issue?