diff --git a/examples/async/.babelrc b/examples/async/.babelrc
index d0962f5695..86c445f545 100644
--- a/examples/async/.babelrc
+++ b/examples/async/.babelrc
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "presets": ["es2015", "react"],
-  "env": {
-    "development": {
-      "presets": ["react-hmre"]
-    }
-  }
+  "presets": ["es2015", "react"]
 }
diff --git a/examples/async/index.js b/examples/async/index.js
index 12bcb25c37..f4c7c77ab1 100644
--- a/examples/async/index.js
+++ b/examples/async/index.js
@@ -1,15 +1,43 @@
 import 'babel-polyfill'
 import React from 'react'
-import { render } from 'react-dom'
+import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
 import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
-import App from './containers/App'
 import configureStore from './store/configureStore'
 
 const store = configureStore()
+const rootEl = document.getElementById('root')
 
-render(
-  <Provider store={store}>
-    <App />
-  </Provider>,
-  document.getElementById('root')
-)
+let render = () => {
+  const App = require('./containers/App').default
+  ReactDOM.render(
+    <Provider store={store}>
+      <App />
+    </Provider>,
+    rootEl
+  )
+}
+
+if (module.hot) {
+  // Support hot reloading of components
+  // and display an overlay for runtime errors
+  const renderApp = render
+  const renderError = (error) => {
+    const RedBox = require('redbox-react')
+    ReactDOM.render(
+      <RedBox error={error} />,
+      rootEl
+    )
+  }
+  render = () => {
+    try {
+      renderApp()
+    } catch (error) {
+      renderError(error)
+    }
+  }
+  module.hot.accept('./containers/App', () => {
+    setTimeout(render)
+  })
+}
+
+render()
diff --git a/examples/async/package.json b/examples/async/package.json
index 6c34136b1e..2d24329f4b 100644
--- a/examples/async/package.json
+++ b/examples/async/package.json
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@
     "babel-loader": "^6.2.0",
     "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.3.13",
     "babel-preset-react": "^6.3.13",
-    "babel-preset-react-hmre": "^1.0.1",
     "expect": "^1.6.0",
     "express": "^4.13.3",
     "node-libs-browser": "^0.5.2",
+    "redbox-react": "^1.2.2",
     "webpack": "^1.9.11",
     "webpack-dev-middleware": "^1.2.0",
     "webpack-hot-middleware": "^2.2.0"
diff --git a/examples/async/webpack.config.js b/examples/async/webpack.config.js
index f71daecee2..038e12dd32 100644
--- a/examples/async/webpack.config.js
+++ b/examples/async/webpack.config.js
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ module.exports = {
   plugins: [
     new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
     new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
-    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
   ],
   module: {
     loaders: [