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hey Sr. Louis

I saw your answer on SO here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19966133/how-to-reload-a-file-via-require-js-triggered-from-the-browsers-js-console

I saw a video of some folks doing hot-reloading with React + Webpack. Thought it could possible with RequireJS, at least with views (not stores).

I have a question though. Say I reload all the .js files for a view.
I assume I would have to call .render() again after loading the views (whether react or backbone) so that the html in the view is actually updated, right? If I don't call render(), nothing visible will happen, right?

The nice thing about all this is it avoids refreshing the page and losing state.

It would be really cool if you could describe a detailed step-by-step workflow on how this functionality is intended to be used.

I will make an attempt here and now, please correct me:

(1) make a globally defined (window.reload) function that will take arguments in the form of paths to files
(2) create some mechanism to invoke that function given an event (a button that gets clicked)*
(3) you click that button and the reload function will undef the current files and then request those files from the server and put the new files in the same places as the old files
(4) you will need some further action to actually show the difference between the old and new JS, and think that means you will have to call .render() again

can you please correct this? thanks!