hot reload for changes in extension dependencies

[tomlinton]

Is there already a way to do this? I didn't dig into the webpack config but out of the box it doesn't seem to support it. Would be useful after #183.

[armaniferrante]

Is there already a way to do this? I didn't dig into the webpack config but out of the box it doesn't seem to support it. Would be useful after #183.

You can try running yarn start in the packages you want to hot reload.

[wentokay]

iirc, if you are running yarn start on the extension and then in a separate terminal cd into the package that you've changed and yarn build it should pick up the changes and reload. Definitely not perfect though. We could probably have webpack watch the other dirs, or use a different bundler altogether.

One of the motivations for #183 was to extract themes as they're being referenced in two packages now and I think yarn might've been relying on some mutations (side-effects) on the mui packages. I'll explain exactly what seemed to be happening in a future comment.

[wentokay]

For reference I've tried getting this extension working with esbuild, parcel-webextension and vite-.

webpack + swr-loader seemed to be the only thing that worked without major issues, but I also think there's a long way to go here for a smooth and fast dev experience

The older, more reliable methods for HMR in extensions were broken in chrome manifest v3