Learning Node.js Development

Installing the nodemon module

Now, to automatically restart our app as we make changes to a file, we have to install a command-line utility, and we'll do this using npm. To get started, we'll go to Google Chrome (or the browser you are using) and head over to https://www.npmjs.com, as we did previously in the Installing the lodash module in our app section, and the module we're looking for is called nodemon.

The nodemon will be responsible for watching our app for changes and restarting the app when those changes occur. Right here, as we see in the following screenshot, we can view the docs for nodemon as well as various other things such as current version numbers and so on:

You will also notice that it's a really popular module, with over ...