nodemon + express, listen port =?

Question

I create a simple node project using express:

npm install -g express-generator express test cd test/ && npm install PORT=3000 npm start 

So this gets the test app up and running on port 3000. Great. Now I'd like to use nodemon to run this project. I've installed it:

npm install -g nodemon 

In the gihub README it is run the same way as node. This is a bit confusing, because the new way of starting node is npm start not node. So I tried:

$ PORT=3000 nodemon ./app.js  13 May 23:41:16 - [nodemon] v1.0.18 13 May 23:41:16 - [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs` 13 May 23:41:16 - [nodemon] watching: *.* 13 May 23:41:16 - [nodemon] starting `node ./app.js` 13 May 23:41:16 - [nodemon] clean exit - waiting for changes before restart 

But when I try to connect, there's nothing there. I confirmed that with:

lsof -i TCP:3000 

Which returned nothing. Normally (with npm start) it returns:

COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME node    18746 user   10u  IPv4 433546      0t0  TCP *:3000 (LISTEN) 

Can anyone tell whats wrong here? How is it possible to get the app to listen on the specified port with nodemon?

my setup:

npm -v 1.3.21 node -v v0.10.24 nodemon -v v1.0.18 express -V 4.2.0 

Answer 1

in package.json

  "scripts":{     // "start": "node ./bin/www"     "start": "nodemon ./bin/www"    } 

the following would now be equivalent:

$ npm start $ nodemon ./bin/www