Installing Nodemon
Learn how to install nodemon for your ExpressJS application.
Nodemon automatically restarts your application and allows you to try new changes in your ExpressJS application faster.
Installing Nodemon
npm install nodemon --save-devInvoking nodemon in your startup script
Replace the script section as below in your package.json:
"scripts": { "start": "if [[ $NODE_ENV == 'production' ]]; then node ./bin/www; else nodemon ./bin/www; fi" },
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so i installed nodemon but then when i DEBUG=myapp:* npm start, i keep getting the same error of "SyntaError: Unexpected Identifier" and [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting... what should i do? nothing is working after this point
I am using windows os the homebrew only for Apple could you address this
Sorry, I realized that this was an OS specific shell script, in this case, Linux/Bash. Solution: Use a different command for production and developer, also use the right command for your operating system. For example: "start": "node ./bin/www", "dev:start":"nodemon ./bin/www" Then use npm run dev:start for starting the server in developer environment, and use npm run start for starting it in production. This essentially removes the OS specific if / else shell script statements, and it should now work on windows. I hope this helps.
I try to run it in Windows PowerShell, but getting the error: PS D:\work\NodeJS\test\myapp> npm start > myapp@0.0.0 start D:\work\NodeJS\test\myapp > if [[ $NODE_ENV == 'production' ]]; then node ./bin/www; else nodemon ./bin/www; fi $NODE_ENV was unexpected at this time. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! myapp@0.0.0 start: `if [[ $NODE_ENV == 'production' ]]; then node ./bin/www; else nodemon ./bin/www; fi` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the myapp@0.0.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
I am getting this error when I run the program after making changes to the script myapp@0.0.0 start C:\Windows\System32\myapp > if [[ $NODE_ENV == 'production' ]]; then node ./bin/www; else nodemon ./bin/www; fi $NODE_ENV was unexpected at this time. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! myapp@0.0.0 start: `if [[ $NODE_ENV == 'production' ]]; then node ./bin/www; else nodemon ./bin/www; fi` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the myapp@0.0.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\ashis\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-02-17T21_23_56_139Z-debug.log