Forever + Nodemon running together

Question

Is there any way to have both of this packages running together?

So basically I want to have best from both worlds. Running server automatically (and restarting when

Answer 1

I'm using forever-service . . .

This is what worked for me. It does the following: everytime a json or raml file in the applications dist/assets folder is modified, wait 10 seconds and then restart the node app (server.js script):

$ forever-service install raml --script server.js -f " -c nodemon" -o " --delay 10 --watch dist/assets -e json,raml --exitcrash" -e "PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Then I can run:

$ service raml start|stop|restart|status

I can also have the service start on server reboot with the chkconfig utility:

$ chkconfig --add raml
$ chkconfig raml on