Programmatically watch and restart node server

Question

I was getting tired of using FileZilla every time I wanted to push a change to my server hosting my website and so I set up a github repo and linked it to my server so that changes and pushed right to the server.

However, my backend is written in node and so each time I update my server.js file I have to restart the server. With "node server.js"

Is there a way to watch the file and programmatically restart the node server when an update is detected?

If it helps, my serve is Ubuntu Linux running apache2

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '16 at 02:46

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You could try writing something yourself, or use one of the popular libraries that are already out there:

https://github.com/petruisfan/node-supervisor supervisor server.js
https://github.com/remy/nodemon nodemon server.js

answered Feb 05 '16 at 02:46

Wex

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Thanks! I tried searching but I guess I didn't search deep enough! – frankgreco Feb 05 '16 at 02:51

Programmatically watch and restart node server

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