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Mukund
Mukund

Reputation: 1105

How to resume nodemon process?

Here is my scenerio, I am developing a nodejs application. I have deployed the application to our server for testing purposes. I am using nodemon to run the app because it's much more easier.

So my problem is, when I am working from home, because of my network problem,I get disconnected from the server frequently.

So, I won't get any logs from the console. What I am doing now is , after each login, I check for nodejs process, Find the processes, kill it and start the app with nodemon again

My question is , is there any way of resuming our nodemon process?

So that we can see the logs right away rather than the approach that I am following now?

Or is this really a very stupid question question?

If there exist any such method, please let me know.

Please help me, I am searching a lot for this , didn't find a solution.

My server is Ubuntu 16 lts

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 719

Answers (1)

Mat Sz
Mat Sz

Reputation: 2552

There are two options, one thing I personally use (and this will remove your dependency on nodemon) is to use screen. It's included with most Linux distributions and even if you don't have it installed yet, there's a screen package in all major Linux distributions.

You create a new screen (for the first time) with screen -S name and whenever you get disconnected you can easily reattach yourself to the screen with screen -R name. If you need to detach from your screen you can use Control+A and Control+D following each other.

screen is universal and will work for anything you can do in terminal, it also can be used to create multiple screens if that's needed, just supply a different name argument.

The other solution would be to use tmux, but it's not as straightforward as screen.

Creation of a new tmux session uses the following command tmux new -s name, then if you need to reattach to a session you will need to use tmux ls and then find the number of your session there and reattach to it via tmux attach-session -t num.

Detaching can be done with Control+B and Control+D.

Upvotes: 4

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