I'll nitpick a bit: CRA _does_ actually support "plain HMR", just not use of React-Hot-Loader. I wrote a post that clarifies the difference between the two: ht

I'll nitpick a bit: CRA _does_ actually support "plain HMR", just not use of React-Hot-Loader. I wrote a post that clarifies the difference between the two: http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/08/blogged-answers-webpack-hmr-vs-rhl/ http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/08/blogged-answers-web... .