@snowpack/plugin-react-refresh: Can it be used without Babel?

[rauschma]

I’m using Snowpack + React + htm (=no JSX and Babel necessary).

Is it possible to use @snowpack/plugin-react-refresh without Babel? In my case, the page is reloaded when there are changes, but the states of the components aren’t preserved.

Thanks!

[FredKSchott]

Unfortunately, react-refresh was designed by the React team for Babel only. You could theoretically re-implement the Babel plugin outside of Babel, but that's out of scope for our project.

One thing that you may be running into: We support normal HMR events even without the use of this plugin. But, In our current templates we import the App.jsx file without extension ("./App") which is currently causing a known bug in our HMR client. This would be causing you to see full page reloads on every change, instead of normal, still very fast HMR events.

Fix for this bug is in: #827