In this release of Sails Shipwright, the much-requested DX of HMR (Hot Module Replacement) and live reload has finally been shipped 🚀.
As an old Sails user, I’ve grown accustomed to hitting refresh like a caveman, so HMR and live reload weren’t necessities for me 😅. However, for newer Sails users joining via The Boring JavaScript Stack, HMR is a must-have.
Sails Shipwright, built on Rsbuild as the modern asset pipeline for Sails, now offers HMR and live reload for full-stack Sails apps, courtesy of the custom dev server feature introduced in Rsbuild v0.5.0.
Also see the full changelog on GitHub.
✅ Upgrading
To start enjoying the DX of HMR and live reload in your Sails applications and in The Boring JavaScript Stack, simply upgrade sails-hook-shipwright in your project.
npm i sails-hook-shipwright@latest -D