How to manually disconnect webpack dev server from chrome

Question

Can I manually disconnect a chrome window from refreshing automatically when I change my code. Basically I want to disconnect the websocket connection using devtool or some other way. I tried offline checkbox, but its not helping.

This will come handy for a HTML developer for him to compare the HTML changes done from a developer tool and to the original one.

Answer 1

Right-click the WS connection in the Network panel then select Block Request URL . Based on the websocket.org echo demo , it seems to provide the effect you're looking for.

Answer 2

Have you tried setting the hot module reload to false? There is mention of it in the docs .