Node.js 8 the Right Way

Keeping Services Running with nodemon

Especially during development, it’s useful to have your Node.js application automatically restart when files change on disk. We saw a similar technique work well when running tests using Mocha back in ​Enabling Continuous Testing with Mocha​.

Short for Node Monitor, nodemon runs a Node.js program and then automatically restarts it whenever the source code changes or if the process terminates. To use it, first we have to install and save the dependency.

$ npm install --save --save-exact nodemon@1.11.0

Next, open your package.json file and add a new start command to the scripts section to override the default.

"scripts": {
  "start": "nodemon server.js",
  "test": "echo \" ...