node.js - Quickly restart node server

Question

I'm using node.js to host a project I'm working on on my local machine using 'http-server'.

Currently if I want to see a change I made to the the Javascript or HTML files, I have to press Ctrl+C stop the server, close my web browser, then restart the server, then reopen my browser and navigate to the hosted site again. Is there a way I can automate this so that there is less manual work? I'm using Visual Studio Code for development.

Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65646922/quickly-restart-node-server

Answer 1

As in the commentary mentioned Nodemon is what you are looking for.

Solution

Install Nodemon

npm install nodemon -g  

• the flag - g will install nodemon globally in your system path so you can use it for all of your projects

Start Project

nodemon index.js