Learning Node.js Development

Autorestarting the tests

Before we write more test cases, let's see an automatic way to rerun our test suite when we change either our test code or our application code. We'll be doing that with nodemon. Now, previously we used nodemon like this:

nodemon app.js

We would type nodemon and we would pass in a file like app.js. Whenever any code in our app changed, it would rerun the app.js file as a Node application. What we can actually do is specify any command in the world we want to run when our files change. This means we can rerun npm test when the files change.

To do this, we'll use the exec flag. This flag tells nodemon that we'll specify a command to run, and it might not necessarily be a Node file. As shown in the following command, ...