Setting fast refresh to false also disables automatic reload

[Pajn]

Describe the bug

When I set FAST_REFRESH=false I expect the old behaviour of a full reload of the page, but instead nothing happens.

Did you try recovering your dependencies?

Yes

Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

FAST_REFRESH

Environment

❯ npx create-react-app --info

Environment Info:

  current version of create-react-app: 3.4.0
  running from /home/rasmus/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/create-react-app

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.8 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
    CPU: (6) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8600 CPU @ 3.10GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: Not Found
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: Not Found
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 86.0.4240.111
    Firefox: 82.0
  npmPackages:
    react: ^17.0.1 => 17.0.1 
    react-dom: ^17.0.1 => 17.0.1 
    react-scripts: 4.0.0 => 4.0.0 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

(Write your steps here:)

1. Add FAST_REFRESH=false to the .env file
2. yarn start
3. Do a change

Expected behavior

The page reloads

Actual behavior

Nothing, I have to reload manually

Reproducible demo

N/A, just create a new app

[obsius]

I had this issue and replied with a hacky work around in #9913. Looking through the file history for the hot dev client this has been fixed, but remains to be released (#9884). Any idea from the maintainers when they intend to release the next version? If fast refresh has issues (like in my case) this should be released sooner than later so folks can use the hot reload instead.

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