Passing CLI arguments through gulp-nodemon

Question

I am using the npm package gulp-nodemon to start my webserver.

The problem I am having is that I cannot pass CLI arguments to my server script.

I would like to write something like this:

gulp --argument1 value1

And the nodemon then should call coffee server.coffee --argument1 value1

My current nodemon task:

# nodemon development server
gulp.task 'nodemonServer',  () ->
  nodemon({
    script: 'server.coffee'
    ext: 'coffee'
    watch: ['server/', 'server.coffee']
    env: { 'NODE_ENV': 'development' }
  })
  .on 'crash', () ->
    notifyServerError()

I tried writing script: 'server.coffee --argument1 value1' but I am getting a strange error: File not found: C:\Users\user\projectRoot\"server.coffee

Yes, with the " in the file path. Here is the log:

[13:13:10] [nodemon] starting `coffee.cmd "server.coffee --argument1 value1"`
File not found: C:\Users\user\projectRoot\"server.coffee

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use args to pass any arguments for coffee command. This are the agruments passed AFTER the script filename.

Use exec to pass any coffee options along with the coffee executable. These are passed BEFORE script filename.

var gulp = require('gulp');
var nodemon = require('gulp-nodemon');
gulp.task('nodemonServer', function () {
  nodemon({
    script: 'server.coffee',
    exec: 'coffee -p',
    args: ['--argument','value1'],
    ext: 'coffee'
  , env: { 'NODE_ENV': 'development' }
  })
})

To see the actual command used by nodemon, use DEBUG=nodemon

DEBUG=nodemon gulp nodemonServer

which logs:

  nodemon bus new listener: reset (0) +0ms
  nodemon bus new listener: reset (0) +6ms
  ...
[13:47:20] [nodemon] starting `coffee -p server.coffee --arguments value1`
  nodemon spawning +0ms coffee -p server.coffee --arguments value1