npm-dev -- Develop Server for NPM

Run your node.js server and automatically restart if needed.

Introduction

This project is inspired by gulp-develop-server, but with some important differences:

• Zero configuration in most use cases
• Provide npm-dev cli
• Your node.js process is spawned in separate process group so all child processes can be cleanly killed
• Better APIs (in my opinion :)
• Written in ES6+

Usage as a global tool

Install

npm install npm-dev --global

Just run npm-dev under your project directory.

Local configuration

Edit .npmdevrc

Usage as a local package

Install

npm install npm-dev --save-dev

APIs

import {Server} from 'npm-dev'

const serv = new Server()

serv.watch('lib/**/*.js')

Gulp Sample

import {Server} from 'npm-dev'

const serv = new Server()

gulp.task('start', () => {
	serv.start()
})

gulp.task('dev', () => {
	gulp.watch('lib/**/*.js', () => {
		serv.restart()
	})
})