Trigger a manual page refresh on a WebpackDevServer instance

[MarlBurroW]

Hello,

I'm working on a fullstack project with a NodeJs express backend.

In development mode, I would like the WebpackDevServer perform a simple refresh when I save a "pug/jade" template (these templates are not compiled by webpack, it's just served and rendered by express).

To summarize, I need this:

const compiler = webpack(config)
const server =  new WebpackDevServer(compiler, {...})

// Here I watch changes in my backend templates folder and want to 
// perform something like this when a template changes:

server.refresh() // Perform a simple page reload without run the webpack compilation

Is there a way to do this in the current version ?

Thanks

[MarlBurroW]

Ok found this reading the sources:

 server._watch('./backend/views/**/*')

It's an internal method so probably not the "proper" way, but it does the job.

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