在学习react的时候，经常用create-react-app来创建web应用，然而写到后面总有连自己服务器和数据库的需求，create-react-app创建的是一个webpack-dev-server，主要用来进行webpack的编译和热加载（HMR），所以想要把这两个东西融合，就是既能监听修改实现热加载，然后用的又是自己的express服务器。网上有两种解决方案：1.设置代理，同时启动express和webpack-dev-server，然后将webpack-dev-server代理到过来。2.利用webpack-hot-middleware和webpack-dev-middleware这两个插件处理编译和热加载。
在这里我选择第二种，因为觉得既然webpack-dev-server本身就是个express服务器，为什么不能把编译和HMR的功能直接用到express上呢。
但是参照https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-hot-middleware/blob/master/example/server.js出现了问题。
var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
require('console-stamp')(console, "HH:MM:ss.l");
var app = express();
app.use(require('morgan')('short'));
// ************************************
// This is the real meat of the example
// ************************************
(function() {
// Step 1: Create & configure a webpack compiler
var webpack = require('webpack');
var webpackConfig = require(process.env.WEBPACK_CONFIG ? process.env.WEBPACK_CONFIG : './webpack.config');//我这里改成了create-react-app中的webpack.config.dev(需要npm run eject看到）
var compiler = webpack(webpackConfig);
// Step 2: Attach the dev middleware to the compiler & the server
app.use(require("webpack-dev-middleware")(compiler, {
logLevel: 'warn', publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath
}));
// Step 3: Attach the hot middleware to the compiler & the server
app.use(require("webpack-hot-middleware")(compiler, {
log: console.log, path: '/__webpack_hmr', heartbeat: 10 * 1000
}));
})();
// Do anything you like with the rest of your express application.
app.get("/", function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
app.get("/multientry", function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index-multientry.html');
});
if (require.main === module) {
var server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 1616, function() {
console.log("Listening on %j", server.address());
});简单的把config文件替换成webpack.config.dev并不奏效，发现修改js文件时，确实会重新编译但是网页不会刷新，也就是HMR失败
看了webpack-hot-middleware的issue之后找到了问题
通过作者的回答可以看出，html的插件和热加载的api是不兼容的，而create-react-app中的config中用了html-webpack-plugin这个插件，所以要用别的方法来解决这个问题。
在issue里也找到了答案，原理就是用node的chokidar模块来监听index.html的改变，然后主动发送一个reload请求给浏览器，让它刷新
demo地址：https://github.com/thesimpledesigners/webpack-hot-reload-client
首先给webpackHotMiddlewareClient添加监听事件，其中subscribe方法是注册监听事件，之后会用public方法来发布信息，就是js中的观察者模式。payload.action === 'reload'时刷新浏览器
// client.js
(function() {
'use strict';
const webpackHotMiddlewareClient = require('webpack-hot-middleware/client?reload=true'); webpackHotMiddlewareClient.subscribe(function(payload) {
if (payload.action === 'reload' || payload.reload === true) {
window.location.reload();
}
}); module.exports = webpackHotMiddlewareClient;
}());
然后利用chokidar来监听index.html文件，使得其一修改就能让服务器发送一个reload请求
//./devScripts/hotReloader.js
(function() {
'use strict';
const path = require('path');
const chokidar = require('chokidar'); function activate(server) {
/**
* Here, we use Chokidar to force page reloading for some other file types
* like html changes or php if you want
*/
const watcher = chokidar.watch([
path.resolve(__dirname, '../index.html'),// index.html is on the root folder
]);
watcher.on('ready', function() {
console.log('Initial scan complete. Ready for changes');
});
watcher.on('change', function(path) {
console.log('File [' + path + '] changed !');
// reload the client on file changes
server.reloadClient();//这个方法要在服务器实现，就是public一个消息给hotMiddleware
}); } // here we export an activate function to activate the watcher module.exports = { activate: activate, }; }());服务器代码：
const path = require('path');
// import express
const express = require('express');
// import webpack and the dev & hot middlewares
const webpack = require('webpack');
const webpackDevMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware');
const webpackHotMiddleware = require('webpack-hot-middleware');
function createServer() {
// Step 1: create the express instance
const app = express();
// Step 2: Create & configure a webpack compiler
const webpackConf = require('../webpack.config.dev.js');
const webpackCompiller = webpack(webpackConf);
const hotMiddleware = webpackHotMiddleware(webpackCompiller);
const devMiddleWare = webpackDevMiddleware(
webpackCompiller,
{
publicPath: webpackConf.output.publicPath,
});
// Step 3: Attach the dev middleware and hot middleware to the server
app.use(devMiddleWare);
app.use(hotMiddleware);
function startServer() {
app.listen(3000, function(err) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
// log server running
console.log('Listening at http://localhost:3000/');
});
}// end function start server
/**
*
*/
function reloadClient() {
hotMiddleware.publish({action: 'reload'});
}// end function RelaodClient
return {
start: startServer,
reloadClient: reloadClient,
};
}
module.exports = createServer();华丽的分割线--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
总之，你如果想在express中用HMR，并且用create-react-app中webpack.config.dev的配置，只要两步：1.将服务器代码改成下方的app.js这样，2.修改webpack.config.dev中entry的配置
1：我将上面代码精炼了一下，贴一下我的服务端代码app.js
var http = require('http');
var path = require('path');
var session = require('express-session') ;
var express = require('express');
const chokidar = require('chokidar');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const webpackDevMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware');
const webpackHotMiddleware = require('webpack-hot-middleware');
const app = express();
app.use(require('morgan')('short'));
'use strict';
// Do this as the first thing so that any code reading it knows the right env.
process.env.BABEL_ENV = 'development';
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development';
const webpackConf = require('./config/webpack.config.dev.js');
const webpackCompiller = webpack(webpackConf);
const hotMiddleware = webpackHotMiddleware(webpackCompiller);
const devMiddleWare = webpackDevMiddleware(
webpackCompiller,
{
publicPath: webpackConf.output.publicPath,
});
// Step 3: Attach the dev middleware and hot middleware to the server
app.use(devMiddleWare);
app.use(hotMiddleware);
app.active = ()=>{
const watcher = chokidar.watch([
path.resolve(__dirname, '/public/index.html'),// index.html is on the root folder
]);
watcher.on('ready', function() {
console.log('Initial scan complete. Ready for changes');
});
watcher.on('change', function(path) {
console.log('File [' + path + '] changed !');
// reload the client on file changes
hotMiddleware.publish({action: 'reload'});
});
}
app.active()
// Do anything you like with the rest of your express application.
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.get("/", function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
});
app.listen(3000, function(err) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
// log server running
console.log('Listening at http://localhost:3000/');
});
2：然后在webpack.config.dev的entry中这样修改
//require.resolve('react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient'),
'webpack-hot-middleware/client?path=/__webpack_hmr&timeout=20000&reload=true',就是把原来它自己写的webpackHotDevClient注释掉，加上后面那句话。
我的demo：https://github.com/jokermask/HMRwithExpress
至此大工告成！