Intentions regarding webpack-dev-server? about webpacker

[renchap]

I am also thinking about how to be able to use webpack-dev-server with Webpacker, specifically to enable hot releoading with my webpacker-react gem.
It would be great if we can use webpack-dev-server the same way ./bin/webpack-watcher is currently used, and this would not need much : a config file and a change to javascript_pack_tag to load the assets from it.

I planned to do this from my gem, but it would be much better to have this support directly into Webpacker. If this is not desirable, an alternate solution would be to have a webpacker-dev-server gem that would add this support and that you can depend on.

[dhh]

I'm open to exploring the use of the dev-server, but I'm not convinced it's worth the extra complexity out the box. I want to make sure that everything is working just as well and easy as with the simple watcher. I heard several stories about hot loading not working too well in all scenarios.

But feel free to propose a PR and let's look at it!

[renchap]

I agree this needs to be optional and only enabled if the user has a need for it (or if he uses a webpacker plugin that requires it).

I am thinking about a new ./bin/webpack-dev-server stub as long as a config option for the user to put in config/environments/development.rb to set the dev server host / port (with a default). Probably worth displaying usage for this option when you launch the dev server through the stub if its not set (I dont know if there is a proper way for this?). This way it is all optional.

Would that be a good starting point for you?

[dhh]

Yeah, let's give it a try and see how it feels.

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[renchap]

@nathanstitt webpack-dev-server support is now merged with #55 :)

[nathanstitt]

Awesome news @renchap - going to play with this shortly.

I'd say we can close this now. Thanks to all for the replies