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webpack-dev-server injects some code into your bundle.js file that will triggers a page reload after you make changes to your assets (JS/CSS). By default it knows to look for an index.html file in your root directory. Both the name of the index file and the directory to look for it in are configurable.

You can change the behavior to only compile your assets when you manually refresh the page by setting lazy: true inside the devServer object. This can be inconvenient because it may take webpack a few seconds to compile your assets after you trigger a refresh.

An alternative is to make the refresh less obtrusive by enabling hot reloading. This won't lose state by fully refreshing the page, but instead will try to replace your live code on the fly with the newly compiled version.

If you want webpack to compile your assets as soon as you change them, but want to manually control page refresh, a third option is to set the config watch: True (at the top level, not in the devServer object) and disable the webpack-dev-server. In this case, run a separate simple web server like http-server in the same directory as your index.html to serve you page.