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

node-dev

node-dev is great alternative to both nodemon and supervisor for developers who like to get growl (or libnotify) notifications on their desktop whenever the server restarts or when there is an error or change occur in file.

Installation:

npm install -g node-dev

Use node-dev, instead of node:

node-dev app.js

Notification on Changing file so server start automatically

console out put