Local Node Dev with Nodemon

When developing a node app locally, use nodemon to restart your dev server whenever changes are made to the files.

1. Install the dev dependency.

npm install --save-dev nodemon

2. Add a dev script to your package.json.

{
  // ..
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js",
    "dev": "nodemon index.js"
  }
  // ..
}

3. Run dev server.

npm run dev