devServe hot reload not available?

[archywillhe]

Hi I'm learning Electron and looking into Fiddle's source.

I noticed that electron-forge/plugin-webpack is used and the config shows:

 devServer: {
          // Disallow browser from opening/reloading with HMR in development mode.
          open: false,
          liveReload: false,
          hot: 'only',
        },

I tried turning liveReload on but not getting anything meaningful.

So looks like somehow hotloading, etc, are disabled . Would love to know why that is the case. Thanks!

[archywillhe]

when it opens in broswer http://localhost:3000/main_window it is just empty; so somehow rendering is disabled in broswer?