Nodemon.io VS forever

We will need some help with the development process, that is why we will use nodemon. Nodemon is a utility tool that automatically monitors changes in your Node.js application's source code and restarts the server whenever it detects any modifications. This tool helps streamline the development process by eliminating the need to manually stop and restart the Node.js server every time you make changes to the code, making it easier to see the effects of your changes immediately. We will use "npm install --save-dev nodemon" to install nodemon to the development section of our project. Also, we need to add a new setting to the scripts part of the package.json file that will start nodemon.

I’m sure you’ve used different tools to watch your source files and restart the application when you change your code. We’ve done this in various ways, one of which is using nodemon, a utility that monitors changes in your source files and automatically restarts the server.

I installed Nodemon to help here. For those who don't know already, Nodemon is a tool that helps by restarting the Node application everytime a change has been made to the code. This proved to be quite helpful as the trial & error was about to begin.

Nodemon is a dependency that monitors your project files for changes and automatically restarts the server once there is a change to any file being watched by nodemon. Think of nodemon as node monitor ;). Note: You shouldn't use nodemon on a production server, except you're part of the developers that attempt fix bug in production, lol.

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nodemon - automatically restarts our Node.js server whenever we make changes to the codebase

The nodemon is a popular library for running and restarting Node.js processes on file changes. All LTS Node.js support an option --watch-path, which allows to replace nodemon:

Or you can install nodemon for the same purpose. nodemon detects changes in the directory and restarts your application.

Have you checked out https://github.com/foreversd/forever

Forever A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)

Also, if you want node red to run on startup, you can use PM2 or forever to make that happen.

There is no accountability. From the license (MIT) https://github.com/foreversd/forever/blob/master/LICENSE#L13...

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, [...]

You can fork it, if you wish. You can maintain a public fork and even accept patches from the community, or not accept patches, or only maintain a private fork and not share it with anyone.

Also, it looks like it's in a semi-zombie state. They even encourage to use other programs:

> A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever). Note that this project currently fully depends on the community for implementing fixes and new features. For new installations we encourage you to use pm2 or nodemon

This is great but, I'd rather not have a console left open 24/7, so I decided to use the forever package to run my script in the background:

To use at the same time multiple NodeJS servers you can use forever. I think you can do it without forever, using the normal NodeJS console, but I wasn't able to.