Live reload / watch mode with Nodemon

[michaelbromley]

If you'd like your dev server to automatically restart whenever a file is changed, you can use nodemon.

1. Install nodemon

   npm install -D nodemon
   

2. Create a config file for nodemon:

   {
     "watch": ["src/",".env"],
     "ext": "ts,js,json",
     "ignore": ["src/plugins/**/ui/*", "src/migrations"],
     "exec": "npm run concurrently"
   }

3. Update your dev script in package.json:

   "dev:" "nodemon -x concurrently npm:dev:*",
   

Now, when you run npm run dev, any changes to your source code will automatically restart your dev server.

[chregu]

If you do TS_NODE_TRANSPILE_ONLY=truebefore, the reload will also be faster (you just won't have TypeScript checks, but maybe your IDE does that already