Webpack --hot in windows not rebuilding bundle

Question

So I am using webpack-dev-server and its live reload ability. I am on a windows machine. When I change a js file it seems to be reloading the browser but it doesn't rebuild the bundle. Here is my webpack config file

 var webpack = require("webpack"); var path = require('path'); module.exports = { entry: ['./app/thirdparty', "./app/app.js"], output: { filename: "./build/bundle.js", publicPath: "/assets/" }, plugins: [ new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin() ], module: { loaders: [{ test: /\\.js$/, exclude: /node_modules/, loader: "babel-loader" }] }, resolve: { extensions: ['', '.js', '.es6'] }, include: path.join(__dirname, 'app') }

I've tried to run it with

webpack-dev-server

and

webpack-dev-server --hot

But the bundle is not rebuilt

Answer 1

So I solved my own question. I had a file looking like :

output: {
   filename: "./build/bundle.js",
   publicPath: "/assets/"
}

I changed it to

output : {
    path: path.resolve('build/js'),
    publicPath: "/public/js/",
    filename : "bundle.js",

}

Which means it will create a bundle.js that will end up in /build/js/bundle.js BUT it needs to be referred to in index.html as public/js/bundle.js because of how the publicPath is specified. Also running

webpack-dev-server --inline

Made everything work. Its obvious once you understand web pack I guess...