Intro to Webpack Dev Server - Part II

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Webpack dev server is great for hot reloading—automatically injecting file changes into the browser without fully refreshing the page. However, since webpack dev server only watches for changes for files being pulled in through webpack's main entry point, it's unable to refresh the browser whenever we make changes to certain files. For instance, html and backend files typically aren't pulled in through webpack's entry point, as a result, they're not refreshed by webpack dev server whenever a change is made to one of them. To fix this, we're going to implement something called Browser Sync. Learn how and why you'll want to use this in every project you develop on from here-on out.

Snippet for webpack.config.js:

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Video Timeline:

00:00 - Our current problem and the proposed solution 02:58 - Where we left off / beginning steps to integrate browser sync 05:34 - Browser Sync plugin properties 11:45 - Testing our Browser Sync implementation 13:17 - Summary / Outro

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