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Nodemon does not restart when index.js file is changed

This is the portion from package.json :

"scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node index.js",
    "dev": "nodemon --watch app index.js"
  },

All my code except the index.js, package.json and node_modules resides in a sub folder called app.

When I run using npm run dev , nodemon watches the changes in app folder and restarts if there's any changes. But won't restart if I make any changes in index.js (entry point)

My folder structure:

|-- app/
|-- node_modules/
|index.js      <--- nodemon not watching this file
|package.json
|package-lock.json

Why is it so?

EDIT:

Here's the solution (from @Pedro Filipe):

  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node index.js",
    "dev": "nodemon index.js"
  },
Solution

  • Nodemon watches the entry-point to your project. Which, In almost all the cases of node project is a single file which eventually imports other files and so on and so forth.

    (Assuming that your entry-point is index.js i.e. you're importing your other files in there.) You can simply use the nodemon index.js as the script for your dev

    "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node index.js",
    "dev": "nodemon index.js"
  },