🙅‍ Nodemand

Restart Node.js process on required modules change.

A light-weight alternative to tools like nodemon and node-dev, watches module files found in ESMLoader after start and no modification is made to the runtime objects.

It supports both ES module and CommonJS.

Installation

yarn global add nodemand
# or
npm install --global nodemand

Usage

nodemand [options] <module-path> [...args]
# example
nodemand server.js

Options

• --debounce <delay> Debounce restart after change detection, defaults to 1000.
• --node-modules Watch also files under node_modules (symbolic links will be resolved before filtering).
• --color, --no-color Force color or no color in console output.
• Other Node.js command line options.

Caveats

• It won't be able to know a CommonJS module if it failed to load at the beginning. This means if you have a CommonJS module with something like a syntax error at the first run, it will not be watched.

License

MIT License.