Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

Running Express.js in development

To launch our server, we have to add a new script to our package.json.

We will add the following line to the scripts property of the package.json file:

"server": "nodemon --exec babel-node --watch src/server src/server/index.js"

As you can see, we are using a command called nodemon. We need to install it first:

npm install --save nodemon

Nodemon is an excellent tool for running a Node.js application. It can restart your server when the source changes.

For example, to get the above command working follow the steps below:

1. Furthermore, we must install the @babel/node package, because we are transpiling the back end code with Babel, using the --exec babel-node option. It allows the use of the import statement: ...