nodemon在package.json中执行“ prestart”脚本

Question

I want to setup nodemon to run the "prestart" script when server restarts, the reason, I'm using webpack and I want to build bundle.js every time a file changes, I'm not using webpack-dev-server cause I don't know how to set it up with an existing node app running, I got my backend on node.js , help on that will be appreciated.

The way I've been working is: run npm start every time I make a change on the code, but that too much effort.

Here's the scripts object at package.json so that you have an idea of what's going on:

"scripts": {
    "bundle": "webpack --config webpack.config.js",
    "prestart": "npm run bundle",
    "start": "node server.js"
  }

Answer 1

The way I've accomplished to do that is by creating a nodemon.json file with the exec property:

 {
    // ... Other conf (see an example in https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/master/doc/sample-nodemon.md)
    "watch": [
      "app" // Set your directories/files to watch
    ],
    "exec": "npm run prestart && node server/index.js"
 }