In this recipe, you'll see how to leverage refresh-on-failure option to force a refresh when HMR fails. The example uses React. To see it in action, install the dependencies first and run the example (npm start). When it's running, try altering the React component (App.jsx) first to see regular HMR. If another.js is modified, it will revert to refresh behavior as the module isn't being hot replaced.
This recipe leverages webpack-nano, a very tiny, very clean webpack CLI.