There is no good solution yet...I have seen this https://github.com/dolbex/webpack-laravel but you have to run 3 servers...yuck. Its all because PHP runs from nginx or apache, not nodejs so it has no concept of the interactions required for HMR. Only solution I could every see is if someone made a nodejs based PHP server (basically nginx written in nodejs), just so you can server all the regular webpack HMR from nodejs AND have it proxy all PHP calls to PHP-FPM. Something like https://github.com/bergie/dnode-php