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Sam Neale
Sam Neale

Reputation: 279

How to restart a Nodemon server via code?

I have an array of JSON objects which gets updated at server start, however if I change info in the JSON via NodeJS FS (not by doing it myself) Nodemon doesn't restart, so I was wondering if it is possible to restart nodemon via code.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1324

Answers (2)

Vinay
Vinay

Reputation: 7666

You need to specify the watch list as by default it will monitor only js and coffee files. You do that by --ext switch or -e

nodemon -e js,json

If you have typescript files too to worry about add them above

Upvotes: 0

Christian Fritz
Christian Fritz

Reputation: 21354

Not sure I fully understand the question, but yes, you can send the nodemon process a SIGHUP signal, e.g.:

pkill -f -SIGHUP nodemon

And you could call this from node.js using child_process.exec. Here is a working example:

const exec = require('child_process').exec;

setTimeout(() => {
  console.log('poking nodemon to restart');
  exec('pkill -f -SIGHUP nodemon');
}, 2000);

Upvotes: 3

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