v2.0.8 [Windows 10] globally installed nodemon broken (looking for windows-kill.exe locally)

[ArminasAer]

With the new 'windows-kill' merge in version 2.0.8 it brakes globally installed nodemon restarts. It says it is looking for the windows-kill binary in the local node_modules folder, but obviously if I am running nodemon from a global install, it's package wont be in the local node_modules

Here is the error I receive; and you can see I dont have nodemon installed locally on this project

Here is the same project using nodemon 2.0.7; and the global nodemon works fine

• nodemon -v: 2.0.8
• node -v: 16.4.0
• Operating system/terminal environment: Windows 10
• Command you ran: nodemon src/main.ts

Steps to reproduce

Install nodemon with npm i -g npm@latest, verify its version 2.0.8 with nodemon -v then run nodemon without a local project install

I want to clarify, that a local install within the project will work with v2.0.8; its just when you try to run it from a global only install

[remy]

cc'ing @countzero - looks like this is simple to replicate, would be good to solve this quickly - I might be able to work it out too myself…

[remy]

@Ericarthurc thanks for the clear explanation 👍

[unshDee]

Glad to see the issue's been raised here (didn't find anything related to it until I landed here). I had installed nodemon globally today, and faced the same problem whenever I updated my code.

• nodemon -v: 2.0.8
• node -v: 14.17.1

[remy]

For my own reference, this is the line in question: https://github.com/remy/nodemon/pull/1853/files#diff-5421faa69288694e0e190b2e6108ec30df01af1b84c6c2d68274f2a31596768eR350

Needs to be "smart".

[remy]

Can folks here try both local and global installs of nodemon@debug - I'm trying to get my local windows environment running so I can test it myself too.

To install the test version:

npm install -g nodemon@debug

[remy]

I'm 90% sure this is fixed in the debug build so I'm going to ship it.

[github-actions]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 2.0.9 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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[countzero]

Oups, my bad... A relative path to the executable makes sense!

@remy thanks for merging and fixing it so quickly!