diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9f48f4d9..dd503d0d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   "description": "Netlify CMS lets content editors work on structured content stored in git",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {
-    "start": "webpack-dev-server -d --inline --config webpack.config.js",
+    "start": "webpack-dev-server --config webpack.config.js",
     "test": "NODE_ENV=test mocha --recursive --compilers js:babel-register --require ./test/setup.js",
     "test:watch": "npm test -- --watch",
     "build": "webpack --config webpack.config.js",
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@
     "eslint-loader": "^1.2.1",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "^5.1.1",
     "exports-loader": "^0.6.3",
-    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^1.0.1",
-    "express": "^4.13.4",
     "file-loader": "^0.8.5",
     "immutable": "^3.7.6",
     "imports-loader": "^0.6.5",
@@ -50,6 +48,7 @@
     "postcss-loader": "^0.9.1",
     "react": "^15.1.0",
     "react-dom": "^15.1.0",
+    "react-hot-loader": "^3.0.0-beta.2",
     "react-immutable-proptypes": "^1.6.0",
     "react-lazy-load": "^3.0.3",
     "react-pure-render": "^1.0.2",
@@ -60,8 +59,8 @@
     "redux-thunk": "^1.0.3",
     "style-loader": "^0.13.0",
     "url-loader": "^0.5.7",
-    "webpack": "^1.12.13",
-    "webpack-dev-server": "^1.14.1",
+    "webpack": "^1.13.2",
+    "webpack-dev-server": "^1.15.1",
     "webpack-postcss-tools": "^1.1.1",
     "whatwg-fetch": "^1.0.0"
   },
diff --git a/src/index.css b/src/index.css
index 13806227..91c45f0d 100644
--- a/src/index.css
+++ b/src/index.css
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ html {
   -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
   -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
   margin: 0;
-  font-family: Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
+  font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
 }
+
 *, *:before, *:after {
   box-sizing: inherit;
 }
@@ -13,15 +14,15 @@ body {
   font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
   height: 100%;
   background-color: #f2f5f4;
-  color:#7c8382;
+  color: #7c8382;
   margin: 0;
 }
 
 header {
   background-color: #272e30;
-  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.22);
+  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.22);
   height: 54px;
-  border-bottom:2px solid #3ab7a5;
+  border-bottom: 2px solid #3ab7a5;
   position: fixed;
   width: 100%;
   z-index: 999;
@@ -35,23 +36,24 @@ h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p {
   margin: 0;
 }
 
-h1{
-    color: #3ab7a5;
-    border-bottom: 1px solid #3ab7a5;
-    margin: 30px auto 25px;
-    padding-bottom: 15px;
-    font-size: 25px;
+h1 {
+  color: #3ab7a5;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #3ab7a5;
+  margin: 30px auto 25px;
+  padding-bottom: 15px;
+  font-size: 25px;
 }
 
-header input{
-  margin-bottom:0;
+header input {
+  margin-bottom: 0;
 }
-button{
+
+button {
   border: 1px solid #3ab7a5;
   padding: 3px 20px;
   font-size: 12px;
   line-height: 18px;
-  background-color:#fff;
+  background-color: #fff;
   cursor: pointer;
 }
 
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ button{
     margin-top: 1px;
     z-index: 99999 !important;
     background: #fff;
-    box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.1);
+    box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .1);
     border: 1px solid #f9f9f9;
   }
   & .rdtOpen .rdtPicker {
@@ -217,10 +219,10 @@ button{
   & .rdtNext span {
     display: block;
     -webkit-touch-callout: none; /* iOS Safari */
-    -webkit-user-select: none;   /* Chrome/Safari/Opera */
-    -khtml-user-select: none;    /* Konqueror */
-    -moz-user-select: none;      /* Firefox */
-    -ms-user-select: none;       /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
+    -webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari/Opera */
+    -khtml-user-select: none; /* Konqueror */
+    -moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox */
+    -ms-user-select: none; /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
     user-select: none;
   }
 
@@ -293,10 +295,10 @@ button{
     display: block;
 
     -webkit-touch-callout: none; /* iOS Safari */
-    -webkit-user-select: none;   /* Chrome/Safari/Opera */
-    -khtml-user-select: none;    /* Konqueror */
-    -moz-user-select: none;      /* Firefox */
-    -ms-user-select: none;       /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
+    -webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari/Opera */
+    -khtml-user-select: none; /* Konqueror */
+    -moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox */
+    -ms-user-select: none; /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
     user-select: none;
   }
   & .rdtCounter .rdtBtn:hover {
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 965e5bd2..ae127d1e 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -1,31 +1,33 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import { render } from 'react-dom';
-import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
-import { Router } from 'react-router';
+import { AppContainer } from 'react-hot-loader'
+import Root from './root'
 import registry from './lib/registry';
-import configureStore from './store/configureStore';
-import routes from './routing/routes';
-import history, { syncHistory } from './routing/history';
 import 'file?name=index.html!../example/index.html';
 import './index.css';
 
-const store = configureStore();
-
-// Create an enhanced history that syncs navigation events with the store
-syncHistory(store);
-
+// Create mount element dynamically
 const el = document.createElement('div');
 el.id = 'root';
 document.body.appendChild(el);
 
 render((
-  <Provider store={store}>
-    <Router history={history}>
-      {routes}
-    </Router>
-  </Provider>
+  <AppContainer>
+    <Root />
+  </AppContainer>
 ), el);
 
+if (module.hot) {
+  module.hot.accept('./root', () => {
+    const NextRoot = require('./root').default;
+    render((
+      <AppContainer>
+        <NextRoot />
+      </AppContainer>
+    ), el);
+  });
+}
+
 window.CMS = {};
 console.log('reg: ', registry);
 for (const method in registry) {
diff --git a/src/reducers/combinedReducer.js b/src/reducers/combinedReducer.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..97e00e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/reducers/combinedReducer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
+import { routerReducer } from 'react-router-redux';
+import reducers from '.';
+
+export default combineReducers({
+  ...reducers,
+  routing: routerReducer
+});
diff --git a/src/root.js b/src/root.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dcfd944a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/root.js
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
+import { Router } from 'react-router';
+import routes from './routing/routes';
+import history, { syncHistory } from './routing/history';
+import configureStore from './store/configureStore';
+
+const store = configureStore();
+
+// Create an enhanced history that syncs navigation events with the store
+syncHistory(store);
+
+const Root = () => (
+  <Provider store={store}>
+    <Router history={history}>
+      {routes}
+    </Router>
+  </Provider>
+);
+
+export default Root;
diff --git a/src/store/configureStore.js b/src/store/configureStore.js
index d7552c00..19fe8a45 100644
--- a/src/store/configureStore.js
+++ b/src/store/configureStore.js
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
-import { createStore, applyMiddleware, combineReducers, compose } from 'redux';
+import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux';
 import thunkMiddleware from 'redux-thunk';
-import { routerReducer } from 'react-router-redux';
-import reducers from '../reducers';
+import reducer from '../reducers/combinedReducer';
 
-const reducer = combineReducers({
-  ...reducers,
-  routing: routerReducer
-});
+export default function configureStore(initialState) {
+  const store = createStore(reducer, initialState, compose(
+    applyMiddleware(thunkMiddleware),
+    window.devToolsExtension ? window.devToolsExtension() : f => f
+  ));
 
-const createStoreWithMiddleware = compose(
-  applyMiddleware(thunkMiddleware),
-  window.devToolsExtension ? window.devToolsExtension() : (f) => f
-)(createStore);
+  if (module.hot) {
+    // Enable Webpack hot module replacement for reducers
+    module.hot.accept('../reducers/combinedReducer', () => {
+      const nextReducer = require('../reducers/combinedReducer') // eslint-disable-line
+      store.replaceReducer(nextReducer);
+    });
+  }
 
-export default (initialState) => (
-  createStoreWithMiddleware(reducer, initialState)
-);
+  return store;
+}
diff --git a/webpack.config.js b/webpack.config.js
index b5dbcf83..94222a49 100644
--- a/webpack.config.js
+++ b/webpack.config.js
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 /* global module, __dirname, require */
 var webpack = require('webpack');
-var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
 var path = require('path');
 
+const HOST = 'localhost';
+const PORT = '8080';
+
 module.exports = {
   module: {
     loaders: [
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ module.exports = {
       { test: /\.json$/, loader: 'json-loader' },
       {
         test: /\.css$/,
-        loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("style", "css?modules&importLoaders=1&&localIdentName=cms__[name]__[local]!postcss"),
+        loader: 'style!css?modules&importLoaders=1&&localIdentName=cms__[name]__[local]!postcss',
       },
       {
         loader: 'babel',
@@ -22,7 +24,13 @@ module.exports = {
         query: {
           cacheDirectory: true,
           presets: ['react', 'es2015'],
-          plugins: ['transform-class-properties', 'transform-object-assign', 'transform-object-rest-spread', 'lodash']
+          plugins: [
+            'transform-class-properties',
+            'transform-object-assign',
+            'transform-object-rest-spread',
+            'lodash',
+            'react-hot-loader/babel'
+          ]
         }
       }
     ]
@@ -34,7 +42,9 @@ module.exports = {
   ],
 
   plugins: [
-    new ExtractTextPlugin('cms.css', { allChunks: true }),
+    new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
+    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
+    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin(),
     new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
       'fetch': 'imports?this=>global!exports?global.fetch!whatwg-fetch'
     })
@@ -42,16 +52,23 @@ module.exports = {
 
   context: path.join(__dirname, 'src'),
   entry: {
-    cms: './index',
+    cms: [
+      'webpack/hot/dev-server',
+      `webpack-dev-server/client?http://${HOST}:${PORT}/`,
+      'react-hot-loader/patch',
+      './index'
+    ],
   },
   output: {
     path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
-    filename: '[name].js'
+    filename: '[name].js',
+    publicPath: `http://${HOST}:${PORT}/`,
   },
-  externals:  [/^vendor\/.+\.js$/],
+  externals: [/^vendor\/.+\.js$/],
   devServer: {
+    hot: true,
     contentBase: 'example/',
     historyApiFallback: true,
-    devTool: 'source-map'
+    devTool: 'cheap-module-source-map'
   },
 };