Nodemon

Nodemon: Auto-Restarts Node.js Server

Automatically monitors for changes in your Node.js application and restarts the server, speeding up development with minimal manual intervention.

What is Nodemon?

nodemon is a popular utility that monitors for any changes in a Node.js application and automatically restarts the server. This saves developers the hassle of having to manually restart the server every time there is a change in code.

Some key features of nodemon:

• Monitors for changes in Node.js app and restarts server automatically
• Speeds up development workflow by eliminating manual restarts
• Watches files, or directories for changes
• Supports delaying restart to avoid intermediate saves
• Ignores specific files or directories
• Easy to configure with CLI or nodemon.json file
• Actively maintained and well-documented

nodemon is commonly used during development to speed up the code-test cycle. Instead of stopping the server, changing code and restarting it every time, nodemon detects the changes and restarts automatically. This improves productivity.

nodemon is less useful in production since restarting often is undesirable. It shines as a development tool to accelerate testing iterations.

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