Faster NodeJS development with nodemon

I'm developing an application using NodeJS and Express. I've only recently discovered nodemon:

https://github.com/remy/nodemon

Long story short, if you're developing a node application you should be using nodemon. I was still manually stopping and restarting my server like a dumb-ass.

You use it like this:

nodemon server.js

Now this script will watch every JavaScript file in your folder and reboot the file you pass as a parameter — in this case server.js — if any of them change.

Simple!

It's also worth reading the documentation to learn about some of the other features, including running non-node scripts.

This could've save me oodles of time.

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Published on Monday, March 3rd 2014. Read this post as plain-text.