Restart node upon changing a file

Question

For someone who is coming from PHP background the process of killing node and starting it again after every code change, seems very tedious. Is there any flag when starting

Answer 1

A good option is Node-supervisor and Node.js Restart on File Change is good article on how to use it, typically:

 npm install supervisor -g

and after migrating to the root of your application use the following

 supervisor app.js