nodevl

Simple Nodejs app reloader for development.

This will reload the app when any of the files are changed, edited, deleted or saved.

Install

• Install as a dev-dependecy npm i nodevl --save-dev or yarn add nodevl --dev
• Install as a global module npm i nodevl -g

Usage

• As a dev-dependency On package.json create a script dev: nodevl your.js and run it with npm run dev
• As a global module, you can directly run nodevl your.js is similar to running node your.js

Environment Variables

• You can pass extra environment variables by using --env option. eg. nodevl your.js --env=PORT=8080,DEBUG=*

Ignoring Directories/Files

• By default, this module ignores the node_modules folder in addition, you can also pass --ignored option to add ignored directories/folders/file. eg. nodevl your.js --ignored=dist/test,test,build this will ignore dist/test, test, and build folders