Hot Module Reload

Hot Module Replacement (HMR) allows your web components to be updated as you develop, without needing a full refresh of the browser. The Open Web Components project maintains a number of tools and libraries for working with Web Components, including a plugin for enabling HMR with FAST Web Components.

To learn more about HMR for Web Components and to see how to setup HMR in your own FAST projects, please see the Open Web Components HMR documentation.

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HMR is limited in what it can update for a given component. So, full-page refreshes are still needed in certain cases. Changes to constructor logic or adding new @attr properties are notable examples of HMR's update limitations. However, template and style changes should be handled automatically without needing a full refresh.