# Flashing white when updating
**URL:** https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568
**Category:** Help Requests
**Created:** [May 18, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568 "2019-05-18T16:34:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Digitalman42](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/Digitalman42)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568/1 "2019-05-18T16:34:47Z")
I followed the contact list tutorial and loved it. So I decided to take this and modify it to jump start my project. I have a great looking page with a black background. The only problem is, whenever I update data in my test data JS file, the page redraws (with the new data) but flashes white when doing so. I thought Aurelia was supposed to be able to handle updating just the specific data item on the screen and change it without redrawing the entire screen/page. I fear I have gone down a wrong path somewhere and changed something I shouldn’t have and caused this issue. I fail to see where, though. I just need a little help to point me in the right direction so the screen will stop flashing white when data is updated in real-time.
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### Author:  [@brandonseydel](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/brandonseydel)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568/2 "2019-05-18T17:12:16Z")
Can you provide a repo of your work or a sandbox?
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### Author:  [@jbockle](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/jbockle)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568/3 "2019-05-18T17:46:54Z")
are you using webpack? if so try --hmr
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### Author:  [@Digitalman42](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/Digitalman42)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568/4 "2019-05-18T22:20:29Z")
Tried --hmr, didn’t change.
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### Author:  [@Digitalman42](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/Digitalman42)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/flashing-white-when-updating/2568/5 "2019-05-19T01:59:27Z")
[UpNext](https://github.com/stmurphy65/upnext) is the repo on [GitHub.com](http://GitHub.com). It’s just Aurelia’s Contact tutorial app changed up a bit to get my feet wet. I should mention, I have no intention of releasing this app as it’s for a very specific purpose. But I put it out on github since you asked.