How to properly restart nodemon server

Question

When I run a nodejs server with the following command:

"start": "nodemon --max-old-space=8192 ./src/app.js --exec babel-node"

and I change anything in the code, nodemon automatically reloads the code and restarts the server with the following message.

[nodemon] restarting due to changes...
[nodemon] starting `babel-node --max-old-space=8192 ./src/app.js`

How do I restart the server manually the same way?

Or in other words: What do I write in the package.json scripts "restart" command to simulate the same behaviour that is done by nodemon automatically?

Thanks

Answer 1

The purpose of nodemon is to listen changes of the file and restart the server. If you want manually to restart the server then you no need to use nodemon, you can use just node command.

The below code would serve the purpose.

{
    "scripts": {
        "start": "node ./src/app.js",
        "restart": "kill -9 $(ps aux | grep '\snode\s' | awk '{print $2}') && node ./src/app.js "
    },
}