Upgrading.md

From 1.3.1_1 or .fast releases

• We now use React-Hot-Loader v3.
• We now rely on Meteor's official .babelrc support (from 1.3.3)
• We can now upgrade hot and the new hot-build independently of ecmascript-hot.

This project is now a general hot loading project, and includes sample instructions for React in the React Hotloading docs. However, the steps below will help you upgrade from an existing installation to the new setup described there.

Remove the old setup

1. npm rm --save-dev babel-plugin-react-transform react-transform-hmr react-transform-catch-errors babel-preset-meteor.
2. Remove meteor from your .babelrc presets. Meteor includes it for you automatically.
3. Remove the entire react-transform section from your client/.babelrc env block (or delete the file completely if you never modified it)
4. Remove your package.json's ecmascript-hot section completely, it's no longer used.

Add the new setup

1. npm install --save react-hot-loader@^3.0.0-beta.2 (check latest release)
2. npm install --save redbox-react
3. In your project root .babelrc, make sure you have { "plugins": ["react-hot-loader/babel"] }.
4. Modify your main client entry point / wherever you mount your root to resemble:

import { AppContainer } from 'react-hot-loader';  // <-- add this line
import Root from './containers/Root';  // example; wherever you keep your main component

// Wherever you do this, probably in Meteor.startup()
ReactDOM.render(
<AppContainer
  component={Root}
  props={{ store }}     {/* if e.g. you're using redux */}
/>,
document.getElementById('root')
);

// This section is new, the references to "containers/Root" should match your import statement
if (module.hot) {
module.hot.accept('./containers/Root', () => {
  render(
    <AppContainer
      component={require('./containers/Root').default}
      props={{ store }}
    />,
    document.getElementById('root')
  );
});
}

1. You need to import 'react-hot-loader/patch'; before importing React. If you have a single client entry-point and get everything else from the /imports directory, just add this as your first line. If you still use a "regular" client directory (with more than 1 file), try place just this line in a file called client/_patchReact.js (or possibly in client/lib if you use react from within that directory).

That's it!

More Help

Definitely skim over the React Hotloading docs too. At the end there's some additional info for mantra-style apps and react-router.

There's also an (extremely convoluted) working example of all the above in https://github.com/gadicc/meteor-hmr/tree/master/demo (besides the changed packages in package.json, note client/_patch.js and client/index.jsx).