Reload server.ts

[malikiz]

Hi, I can't figure out how to reload my application when editing server.ts, how can I achieve this?

In my case I want to edit the example:

app.get("/message", (_, res) => {
    res.send("Hello from express!")
});

When I edit server.ts nothing happens. F5 key in browser does not help me. For this I have to restart the application manually

[szymmis]

Hi @malikiz, every change in server-side code needs an application restart.
If you want to have it automated on file save you can use nodemon. That's a package that create-vite-express templates use. Check out this package.json for an example.

[malikiz]

Thanks for the hint, it really works. Just in case, I'll write how to implement this on node 20 and typescript 5 versions:

in package.json:

{
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
      "dev": "nodemon --exec \"node --loader ts-node/esm\" ./src/server/server.ts -w ./src/server"
  }
}

in tsconfig.json:

{
  "ts-node": {
    "transpileOnly": true,
  }
}

[malikiz]

I'm closing this issue