Restart webpack on configuration change

[Artur-]

Whenever I edit webpack.config.js I currently need to restart everything. This takes a long time when all that would be needed is to restart the webpack dev server.

There are lengthy discussions about this in multiple webpack issues:

• Restart after config change webpack/webpack-dev-server#440
• Watch for config changes webpack/webpack#3153
• [Feature]: Watch for webpack config changes in watch mode webpack/webpack-cli#15

The conclusion is apparently that webpack could support it some day and right now you can use something like

nodemon --watch webpack.config.js --exec webpack-dev-server --content-base app/