Warm-require NPM

warm-require

Hot reload for server

You can read about the implementation here

Features

Reload files which changed
update file when any sub-dependency is modified

##installation

npm i --save-dev warm-require

##Usage

//index.js
var warmRequire = require('./warm-require-config');
var hotModule = warmRequire(__dirname + '/module');

function whichGetsCalledOnEveryRequest() {
	// Reload it.
	hotModule = warmRequire(__dirname + '/module');

	// Use it.
	render(hotModule);
}

// warm-require-config.js
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
	module.exports = require;
} else {
	var warmRequire = require('warm-require').watch({
		paths: __dirname + '/**/*.jsx' // used anymatch. https://github.com/es128/anymatch.
	});
	module.exports = warmRequire;
}

Known issues

You cannot use with ES6's import statement. It is immutable to make it statically analyzable, so that it would work in browsers as well. (Arrgh) So you will have to use var or let.