dev-server

A simple utility to run a node app in "dev mode"

Features

• Load .env files and restart on their changes
• Manually restart by pressing r

Usage

// dev.js

import { createDevServer } from '@softnetics/dev-server'
import chokidar from 'chokidar'

const { start, stop, restart } = createDevServer({
  command: 'node src/server.js',
})

start()
// watch for changes in src
chokidar.watch('./src').on('all', () => restart())

Then run the dev server

node dev.js

With tsup

In a project that requires a bundling process, you can use tsup watch mode to automatically rebuild the project on source change, and start the dev server on successful build.

When a source file is changed, the dev server will automatically stop before tsup restarts the build process.

// dev.js

import { tsupDevServer } from '@softnetics/dev-server'
import { build } from 'tsup'

build({
  entry: ['src/server.ts'],
  watch: true,
  onSuccess: tsupDevServer({
    command: 'node dist/server.js',
  }),
})