How to force reload webpack on change about filewatcher-webpack-plugin

[maximus1108]

If you're using webpack dev server, I believe it is not possible to reload manually. I got around this problem by using browserSync. I used this plugin here https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-sync-webpack-plugin.

Instantiate the plugin before defining webpack config. Pass the reference to the plugin to the webpack config. You can then reload the server by calling [reference].browserSync.reload()

[motin]

but don't know how to send the reload signal from there

Reload or recompile? If the latter, you can, after #6 is fixed, run:

            const callbackContext = this;
            callbackContext.compiler.run(function(err) {
              if (err) throw err;
              callbackContext.watcher.close();
            });