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With a local installation, nodemon will not be available in your system path or you can't use it directly from the command line. Instead, the local installation of nodemon can be run by calling it from within an npm script (such as npm start ) or using npx nodemon .
The usual way to run a Node. js program is to run the globally available node command (once you install Node. js) and pass the name of the file you want to execute. While running the command, make sure you are in the same directory which contains the app.
In order for you to run nodemon with VS Code, you have to set the attribute "restart" to true . This sets the VS Code debugger to re-attach to your node. js application after it is terminated by nodemon. This is useful because nodemon will restart the app on every save made.
This will be a simple command for this
nodemon --exec npm start
In package json:
{
"name": "abc",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "my server",
"scripts": {
"start": "nodemon my_file.js"
},
"devDependencies": {
"nodemon": "~1.3.8",
},
"dependencies": {
}
}
Then from the terminal you can use npm start
Nodemon installation: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodemon
I have a TypeScript file called "server.ts", The following npm scripts configures Nodemon and npm to start my app and monitor for any changes on TypeScript files:
"start": "nodemon -e ts --exec \"npm run myapp\"",
"myapp": "tsc -p . && node server.js",
I already have Nodemon on dependencies. When I run npm start, it will ask Nodemon to monitor its files using the -e switch and then it calls the myapp npm script which is a simple combination of transpiling the typescript files and then starting the resulting server.js. When I change the TypeScript file, because of -e switch the same cycle happens and new .js files will be generated and executed.
I use Nodemon version 1.88.3 in my Node.js project. To install Nodemon, see in https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodemon.
Check your package.json, see if "scripts" has changed like this:
"scripts": {
"dev": "nodemon server.js"
},
server.js is my file name, you can use another name for this file like app.js.
After that, run this on your terminal: npm run dev
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