Is PM2 meant to be used during development process?

Question

I'm starting with Node.js world and I noticed that node process doesn't restart automatically.

Searching around I found that nodemon can do that work but I also found that PM2 is an alternative to nodemon. So should I try PM2 for development or just leave it for production and use nodemon for development (which seems very easy to setup)?

Answer 1

A node process should not restart unless told to do so. You can use PM2 for development with the watch feature - similar results to nodemon. I recommend PM2 if you want to pass in a bunch of environment variables from your PM2 ecosystem.config.js file. Otherwise, I’d use nodemon as @AKX said.