Updates no longer working after fixing syntax error

[aoshi321]

Hi

In regards to the closed issue #389 and I am using webpack-dev-middleware/webpack-hot-middleware and I'm still experiencing the same issue.

thanks

Aoshi

[calesce]

Hi, you can continue the conversation in the same issues after it's closed. Can you provide a simple repository that reproduces the issue? If you want to see a working examples you can look here.

[aoshi321]

Hi

I've tried the example you have linked to. That also has the same problem. I edited one of the components. Added a syntax error. Any changes after that are no longer picked up until you refresh.

thanks

[calesce]

Syntax error or runtime exception? Have an example? RHL isn't able to recover from errors on updates to render, see #164.

[aoshi321]

Added the following error

class Home extends Component {
render() { £$%£$%£$
return

Hello, world

;
}
}

[calesce]

@aoshi321: OK, yeah if you refresh after Webpack fails to build, you won't see the error overlay in the browser, just the console. The overlay only appears in hot updates. I can see how that's confusing.

It might be worth opening an issue with webpack-hot-middleware to get the syntax error overlay on page refresh (if it's possible/feasible), what would you think @glenjamin?

[glenjamin]

Interesting question.

It might be possible to load only the overlay, although there isn't an obvious way to get a working webpack build to do that when the intended one is broken.

If we found a way to load a stub with an overlay, I'm not sure whether it could be hot reloaded back into the main application.

[calesce]

Ok, opened as webpack-contrib/webpack-hot-middleware#133, thanks for responding @glenjamin!

Closing this one because it's not specific to RHL.