Can I tell foreman to reload the web app every time a request is made so I can develop decently?

Question

A web app I am writing in JavaScript using node.js. I use Foreman, but I don\'t want to manually restart the server every time I change my code. Can I tell Foreman to reload

Answer 1

You don't even need to install anything new if you use node-dev.

Your .env file loaded from Procfile:

NODECMD=node-dev

Your Procfile:

web: $NODECMD app/server.js

Your foreman command

foreman start -e dev.env -p 9786

And in your production env (heroku) set an environment variable:

NODECMD=node