Nodemon

ELI5 — The Vibe Check

Nodemon watches your files and restarts your server every time you save. Without it, you'd be manually stopping and starting your server hundreds of times a day like some kind of animal. It's the first dev tool every Node.js developer installs.

Real Talk

Nodemon is a development utility that monitors file changes in a Node.js application and automatically restarts the process. It supports custom watch directories, file extensions, delay timers, and ignore patterns. It's strictly a development tool and should not be used in production.

Show Me The Code

# Instead of: node server.js
nodemon server.js

# Watch specific extensions
nodemon --ext js,ts,json server.ts

When You'll Hear This

"Install nodemon so you don't have to restart the server after every change." / "Nodemon keeps restarting because you have a syntax error — check your code."