From the course: Building a Website with Node.js and Express.js
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Setting up nodemon
From the course: Building a Website with Node.js and Express.js
Setting up nodemon
On my pursuit to make coding as smooth as possible, I found out that it's pretty tedious to reload express every time I change some code as we did it before. This problem can be solved with a tool called nodemon. Nodemon will watch a project and reload it automatically when a file changes. So let's install nodemon now and it's again a development dependency. I add npm, install, dash D, nodemon, and this will install nodemon for us and I'm already opening package.jason, because I have to change the startscript, they are now once nodemon is installed, because I will now add a new entry that I call dev. You will see soon how we can run this then, and there I add nodemon, and then I add dash dash ignore, and this is now a little bit of spoiler, because later we will store feedback user submit into a feedback.jason file, and we don't want express to reload then every time this file is changed, so I am ignoring…
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