ChunkLoadError During Hot Reloads in Webpack with Multiple Entry Points
What’s the issue? Webpack supports adding multiple entry points in an app. Entry Points page in documentation explains that a bundle for each entry point is created separately, which can help reduce load time by caching bundles that aren’t modified (e.g. node_modules). But having multiple entry points may lead to following error during hot reloads: ChunkLoadError: Loading hot update failed. One of my org’s repo had a long standing issue of hot reloads not working. Digging further into the issue, I found this solution on stack overflow of adding runtimeChunk: 'single' to webpack.dev.js. But there was hardly any explanation of what the other options for runtimeChunk actually did in simple words. ...