HMR for local development about greenwood

[hutchgrant]

This is problematic and would require removing our current live reload solution entirely. The 2(hmr and live reload) would conflict. If I add a new component or change a page-template, or add a new template, I need to re-generate compilation. That can't be done by HMR by default. Currently, by using filewatcher-webpack-plugin we're able to catch that event and run that compile function. But if we turned on HMR it would still continue to live-reload because of the regex we're watching for (any change in our userWorkspace).

One possible solution, but I don't know how viable it is, would be to modify regex for only certain files we live-reload and re-compile. This is tricky.

[thescientist13]

Interesting thread from React land

Would be cool if this could work with GraphQL as well, but we can certainly develop it, enabled only by a flag, with certain caveats documented; e.g. might not work for all use cases, YMMV, etc.

[thescientist13]

This cool project from pikapkg
https://github.com/pikapkg/esm-hmr

[thescientist13]

There is some work in the Community Protocols space happening around this discussion that may be worth following up on whenever (if) we get around to this - webcomponents-cg/community-protocols#6