Auto-starting Node.js application on Vagrant when there are changes to code

Question

I\'m running a Node.js application on a Vagrant box and want the Node.js application to restart when anything changes on the host machine.

But I couldn\'t use nodemo

Answer 1

Ates' answer provides quite a bit of bloat in my opinion (pm2, Gulp, gulp-shell and an excessive gulpfile?!). A great alternative to nodemon is a similar lib called node-dev. It's also mentioned under nodemon's issues with Vagrant (which you skimmed through, I imagine).

Basic usage:

node-dev --no-deps app.js

All the best :)