Webpack --watch and launching nodemon?

Question

Thanks to an excellent answer by @McMath I now have webpack compiling both my client and my server. I\'m now on to trying to make webpack --watch be useful. Ideally

Answer 1

Faced the same problem and found the next solution - "webpack-shell-plugin". It

allows you to run any shell commands before or after webpack builds

So, thats my scripts in package.json:

"scripts": {
      "clean": "rimraf build",
      "prestart": "npm run clean",
      "start": "webpack --config webpack.client.config.js",
      "poststart": "webpack --watch --config webpack.server.config.js",
}

If I run 'start' script it launches next script sequence: clean -> start -> poststart. And there is part of 'webpack.server.config.js':

var WebpackShellPlugin = require('webpack-shell-plugin');

...
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
    config.plugins.push(new WebpackShellPlugin({onBuildEnd: ['nodemon build/server.js --watch build']}));
}
...

"onBuildEnd" event fires only once after first build, rebuilds are not trigger "onBuildEnd", so nodemon works as intended