szmarczak / RestartOnSave

A homemade version of Nodemon to restart server ( or any long running software ) on change in program file or given directory with posibility to ignore files in it.

RestartOnSave - simple app which restarts our program on save

A homemade version of Nodemon to restart long running node software on change in program file or given directory with posibility to ignore files in it. Made using :

• Node.js

Table of contents

• General info
• Inspiration
• Setup

General info

This app is simple automatic restart on files change program.

Inspiration

This project functionality was inspired by Nodemon tool.

Setup

To run this project, do the following steps: *download repository files

$ cd ../downloadLocation
$ npm install
$ node app.js param1 param2

Where

• param1 is your node app specific localisation which u want to run
• param2 is your node app directory where u want to check for file changes

By default:

• u can use only one parameter (param1) to restart it on changes.
• using directory will ignore directories with names [".idea","node_modules","public"] to change use Ignore files (#ignore files)

Ignore files

To add ignored directories go to /src and change ignorePaths.json file and add dir name as below.

"[\"node_modules\",\"public\",\".idea\",\"filename\" ]"