Web 107 Node Server

Nodemon is an actively maintained project that will reload our server for us automatically on file changes.

You can use nodemon in a couple of ways. You can install the tool globally or just for a single project.

Use Globally

# let's make sure we are on the latest version of npm
npm install -g npm

# install nodemon
npm install -g nodemon

Usage

cd to your project root directory and run the command below.

nodemon server.js

Use for a Single Project

Start from this GitHub repo as a template.

cd project-dir
git clone https://github.com/njmaeff/web-107-node-server.git .

Install

npm install

Commands

# starting the server in reload mode
npm run serve

# bonus using browser-sync to refresh the browser automatically
# install browser-sync
npm install -D browser-sync
# run the script
npm run sync