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Debajit Mallick @mallickdebajit

Hot Reloading: Real-Time Updates For React Developers

Hot reloading with React: update apps in real-time as you code, no manual refresh needed! Tools like Webpack & Babel monitor project files for changes, recompiling changed modules in memory for speed.

Introduction

Have you ever been working on a React app and found yourself continuously refreshing the page whenever you changed to see the updates? It can be a tedious and time-consuming process. Well, that's where hot reloading or HMR (Hot Module Replacement) comes in. It's a feature that allows React developers to update their applications in real-time as they write code. This means that every time you change a component, the UI is updated instantly without the need to manually refresh the entire page.

  
  
  How it works?


Hot reloading is particularly useful when you're fine-tuning the...