HMR is not updating the view with Angular CLI

Question

I recently updated my angular app to the latest versions. And after a night of nightmares of bug, I got everything working except for HMR. I am badly stuck with it. Following are my configurations according to the the HMR Story on Angular CLI wiki:

angular.json

      "build": {
              "configurations": {
                "hmr": {
                  "fileReplacements": [
                    {
                      "replace": "src/environments/environment.ts",
                      "with": "src/environments/environment.hmr.ts"
                    }
                  ]
                }
              }
            },
 "serve": {
          "configurations": {
            "hmr": {
              "hmr": true,
              "browserTarget": "appHit:build:hmr"
            },
          }
        },

hmr.js

import { NgModuleRef, ApplicationRef } from '@angular/core';
import { createNewHosts } from '@angularclass/hmr';

export const hmrBootstrap = (module: any, bootstrap: () => Promise<NgModuleRef<any>>) => {
  let ngModule: NgModuleRef<any>;
  module.hot.accept();
  bootstrap().then(mod => ngModule = mod);
  module.hot.dispose(() => {
    const appRef: ApplicationRef = ngModule.injector.get(ApplicationRef);
    const elements = appRef.components.map(c => c.location.nativeElement);
    const makeVisible = createNewHosts(elements);
    ngModule.destroy();
    makeVisible();
  });
};

main.ts

import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';

import { AppModule } from './app/app.module';
import { environment } from './environments/environment';

import { hmrBootstrap } from './hmr';

if (environment.production) {
  enableProdMode();
}

const bootstrap = () => platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

if (environment.hmr) {
  if (module[ 'hot' ]) {
    hmrBootstrap(module, bootstrap);
  } else {
    console.error('HMR is not enabled for webpack-dev-server!');
    console.log('Are you using the --hmr flag for ng serve?');
  }
} else {
    bootstrap().catch(err => console.log(err));
}

I tried the following commands:

ng serve --hmr

ng serve --hmr --configuration hmr

ng serve --configuration hmr

Everything gets compiled on change and even the events fired are cached in browser but nothing happens after HMR logs the following:

[WDS] App updated. Recompiling...
[WDS] App hot update...

I am totally lost at this point. Any kind of help will be very much appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

I think it might be helpful to some. I solved my issue by updating to Angular version 7 and adding the following line in main.ts for HMR

module['hot'].accept();

As follow:

if (environment.hmr) {
    if (module['hot']) {
        module['hot'].accept();
        hmrBootstrap(module, bootstrap);
    } else {
        console.error('HMR is not enabled for webpack-dev-server!');
        console.log('Are you using the --hmr flag for ng serve?');
    }
} else {
    console.log('hot');
    bootstrap().catch(err => console.log(err));
}

So far HMR has been working completely fine. I did not had time to debug it further but most probably there was dependency incompatibility that might have caused it on my end