react-transform-hmr

A React Transform that enables hot reloading React classes using Hot Module Replacement API.

Hot module replacement is supported natively by Webpack and available in Browserify with browserify-hmr.

Installation

First, install the Babel plugin:

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-react-transform

Then, install the transform:

npm install --save-dev react-transform-hmr

Then edit your .babelrc to include extra.babel-plugin-react-transform.
It must be an array of the transforms you want to use:

{
  "stage": 0,
  "env": {
    // only enable it when process.env.NODE_ENV is not 'production'
    "development": {
      "plugins": ["react-transform"],
      "extra": {
        // must be defined and be an array
        "react-transform": [{
          "target": "react-transform-hmr",
          // if you use React Native, pass "react-native" instead:
          "imports": ["react"],
          // this is important for Webpack HMR:
          "locals": ["module"]
        }]
        // note: you can put more transforms into array
        // this is just one of them!
      }
    }
  }
}

Finally, make sure you process files with babel-loader, and that you don’t use React Hot Loader (it’s not needed with this transform).

It is up to you to ensure that the transform is not enabled when you compile the app in production mode. The easiest way to do this is to put React Transform configuration inside env.development in .babelrc and ensure you’re calling babel with NODE_ENV=production. See babelrc documentation for more details about using env option.

License

MIT