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Farewell, Nodemon! 💔

Bilal Asghar on August 04, 2023

Nodemon has been our trusty friend, helping Node.js developers by automatically restarting our servers whenever we made changes to our code. So if...
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Alice 🌈 • • Edited

To be honestly, gulp's file watch thingy works much better than nodemon.

I used that code snipper through my career to quickly set it up

// gulpfile.js
const gulp = require('gulp');
const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

gulp.task('start_dev', (cb) => {
    console.log('Running in dev mode');

    const spawn_node = () => {
        return spawn('node', [ '--inspect=0.0.0.0:9229', 'src/index.js' ], { stdio: 'inherit' });
    }

    let node = spawn_node();

    function files(cb) {
        console.log('Restarting node');
        node.kill('SIGTERM');
        node = spawn_node();
        cb();
    }

    gulp.watch('**', { events: 'all' }, files);

    cb();
})
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Then just run npx gulp start_dev to start it up

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Bilal Asghar •

Absolutely, I appreciate your input! 🧡