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Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
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Nodemon not restarting if main file has no extension #904

Closed aalexgabi closed 6 years ago

aalexgabi commented 8 years ago

I have a js file without extension and when it's content changes nodemon doesn't restart it. I saw that we can specify file extension list but shouldn't the main file be supported with a shebang?

Any ideas how to fix this?

remy commented 8 years ago

It's not a great answer, if this is a node project, you can give it an extension, and just alias inside of your package.json (the same way nodemon does). If it's not…im not sure. Sorry.

aalexgabi commented 8 years ago

I fould a workaround:

$ nodemon --watch file-without-extension file-without-extension
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entozoon commented 6 years ago

This problem does still exist. The workaround is fine but it is an unexpected problem regardless

yanicakj commented 5 years ago

@aalexgabi The issue with that workaround is nodemon will no longer watch parent directories (using --watch /bin/www appears files outside bin are not watched).

mholtzhausen commented 5 years ago

I created some node-based githooks and was using nodemon to rerun on changes. I added a lib folder with some shared code. when I run nodemon -w .githooks/ .githooks/pre-commit nodemon catches changes in .githooks/* but does not restart when .githooks/pre-commit is changed

I then tried nodemon -w .githooks/pre-commit. This sees changes to .githooks/pre-commit but nothing else.

I then tried nodemon -w .githooks/pre-commit -w .githooks/ .githooks/pre-commit. This sees changes to .githooks/* but not changes to .githooks/pre-commit

Frustrating...

entozoon commented 5 years ago

So it should be re-opened, right?

remy commented 5 years ago

Happy to reopen with a PR.

broofa commented 2 years ago

Submitting PR.

FWIW, my use case for this is that I need to run a script that does docker build any time a file in the current directory changes. If I donodemon --ext "*" -x build.sh, it doesn't restart whenDockerfile changes . Nor does using --ext Dockerfile work.