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gaearon/react-hot-boilerplate
Minimal live-editing example for React
Dan Abramov's original minimal demo for React Hot Loader — live editing React components without losing state. It is explicitly deprecated and points to react-refresh-webpack-plugin as the replacement. There is no reason to start a new project from this.
Historically significant as the proof-of-concept that made HMR for React mainstream. The setup is genuinely minimal — eight files, easy to read if you want to understand how the original hot loader wired into webpack. Good reference for understanding what react-refresh replaced and why.
Deprecated since at least 2020, last touched five years ago. React Hot Loader itself has known issues with hooks that react-refresh solves. The webpack config and babel setup reflect 2017-era conventions. Anyone cloning this for a real project is starting in a hole.