nodemon not found in npm

Question

I have a problem: nodemon does not run off the npm script (e.g. npm start),
but if nodemon is called on the command line outside the npm script, nodemon run

Answer 1

This worked for me ...

Install nodemon as a local dev dependency

npm install --save-dev nodemon

Add script to your application package.json to start the application.

"scripts": {
  "start": "nodemon app.js"
},

Start nodemon with npm start

$ npm start

> node-rest-demo@1.0.0 start node-rest-demo
> nodemon app.js

[nodemon] 1.19.4 [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs` [nodemon] watching dir(s): *.* [nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json [nodemon] starting `node app.js` Starting server ...