TIL Node’s `–watch` flag

Published August 22, 2024

I totally missed this: Node has a --watch flag which you can use like so:

node --watch app.js

Or in your package.json’s start script:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node --watch app.js"
  }
}

This effectively replaces nodemon, at least for the most common workflows. This was announced in Node 18.

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