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Quickly restart node server

I'm using node.js to host a project I'm working on on my local machine using 'http-server'.

Currently if I want to see a change I made to the the Javascript or HTML files, I have to press Ctrl+C stop the server, close my web browser, then restart the server, then reopen my browser and navigate to the hosted site again. Is there a way I can automate this so that there is less manual work? I'm using Visual Studio Code for development.

Thanks

Solution

  • As in the commentary mentioned Nodemon is what you are looking for.

    Solution

    Install Nodemon

    npm install nodemon -g
    • the flag - g will install nodemon globally in your system path so you can use it for all of your projects

    Start Project

    nodemon index.js