HMR for stylesheets

[loopmode]

Currently, ExtractTextPlugin is used for stylesheets in development mode, and HMR does not work. You need to manually reload the page.

However, there is a really simple fix for this, using css-hot-loader in combination. See webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plugin#384 (comment)

It's a pretty much non-critical change and a big win for developers.
Of course it should only be applied when in development, not when publishing dist.

I wanted to add a separate pull request, but I'm still a bloody noob in terms of github pull requests.
So, unfortunately this addition landed in the same PR I had already created: #28

[loopmode]

Untill the PR is merged (or not..?) I use a pretty naive but effective patching mechanism to have these features. In case somebody is interested, see here:

https://github.com/loopmode/electron-webpack-quick-start/blob/master/package.json#L6
https://github.com/loopmode/electron-webpack-quick-start/tree/master/scripts

On postinstall, I perform a simple text replace on the actual code of electron-webpack and patch the missing features into it. Very ugly, but works fine for now.

[walleXD]

Tbh the best possible solution atm would be to work on a solution to expose the Webpack configs so that we are also able to use the cli features similar to how razzle & backpack.js loads user configs from a designated file, similar to Webpack

[loopmode]

Actually, my PR got merged in version 1.6.0 and it works nicely. Just use yarn add electron-webpack@1.6.0 - it's a pre-release as of now.
I guess we should close this issue.