webpack dev server - change what happens on save file?

[souldzin]

Current Scenario:

• Start dev server:

  npm run dev

• Change a source file (adding a "console.log")

• Dev server will reload the webpage

Thoughts:

Is there a way to keep the dev server from live reloading the webpage on file save? It's kind've problematic for me since I habitually save files often. Is there a way I can flag it off for my local environment?

Also, it might be cool to hook into the build server to run our test script.

[souldzin]

This makes it seem like I might be looking for something out of webpack's scope....

[JackSkylark]

So I'm thinking about ditching Webpack and using gulp and rollup.js. I'll make a PR here today that shows how I'm thinking we can setup the project.

EDIT: No reason to switch to to rollup, might as well stick with webpack.

[JackSkylark]

I don't see any issue with using gulp for our tasks (even starting webpack(!)). That's what it's used for. I think that webpack is a really easy and descriptive bundling system and we can take advantage of some of its build optimizations. Until we need a custom task that would be better achieved with gulp, I think that we should use the package.json scripts for tasks.

[souldzin]

So I created a few cards in the project board to capture the requirements of this issue. When these have been resolved we can close this issue.

[JackSkylark]

Perfect. I'll start looking into these soon.