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Luckily I discovered a great tool called Nodemon https://github.com/remy/nodemon. Install it by running
The answer to that question is a great tool called PM2 https://github.com/Unitech/pm2. PM2 is a tool like nodemon which is intended to run your node app in production. Like Nodemon it will monitor your app for changes and redeploy them, but unlike Nodemon, if PM2 encounters a crash, it will restart your node.js app right away.
Async.js https://github.com/caolan/async or “async” allows you to easily execute functions in series or parallel without the need of nesting them back to back.
Another great library is Q https://github.com/kriskowal/q. This library is exposes the concept of promises. A promise is basically an object that is returned from a method with the “promise” that it will eventually provide a return value. This ties is very neatly with the asynchronous nature of javascript and node.js.
Node-inspector lets you do some really cool things like live code changing, step debugging, scope injection and a bunch of other cool stuff. It’s bit involved to setup, so I’ll let you follow the instructions over at https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector