Nodemon.io VS Express

That's already pretty good, but as you already know it's a PITA to work with this during development. You will have to rebuild your Docker images whenever you change your code, even though your apps will probably support hot-reloading out of the box (or with something like Nodemon if not).

Are you moving your projects to use ES Modules but you are facing some unexpected issues? You are not alone in this fight. In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up nodemon along with ts-node.

We can now use npm run dev to start the server using nodemon, which enables hot refreshing on changes.

You’ll need to restart the server using node index.js whenever you change any project file. You can also use Nodemon to automate this.

nodemon will be required to monitor for any changes in our source code and automatically restart our server.

Using Chokidar to watch for the file changes - https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/main/lib/monitor/watch.js

ExpressJS is a fast, minimalist framework that provides several features for building web applications in Node.js, CORS is a Node.js package that allows communication between different domains, and Nodemon is a Node.js tool that automatically restarts the server after detecting file changes.

Nodemon is a package that will automatically restart our Node.js server after detecting any changes, making local development easy.

I use Express and Jest, but only enough to give you something to start with. You can substitute these out for your favorite web and test framework.

The API is a powerful blend of Node.js + Express. When evaluating backend combinations, a crucial aspect is that it can be deployed in any environment. Hence, vendor-locked options like Next.js were excluded from the candidate list.

After searching for hours and hours, I finally found an issue requesting to Dockerize the application. It was a full-stack social media application called ChatRoom, with a React Frontend and an Express.js Backend. Even though the project was fairly new, and not super complex, it was exactly what I was looking for this time.

Community stats: The official Express GitHub repository has 62.1k stars and 11.7k forks. The Express mailing list has over 5000 discussions which can be used as an issue library when you encounter a bug while developing an Express application.

Express is the most popular and minimalistic web framework for NodeJS. Express is designed to simplify the backend application development with a robust set of features including routing, middleware, error handling, and templating.

Express: Express is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js.

To demonstrate how to set up preview environments for a GitHub repository, we'll work with an example repository containing a basic Node.js web app built with Express. The application responds to requests with a simple "hello world" message.

Use NPM to install the plugin package, express web server package, and the Ably client library:

Express.js Documentation