running app.js with node-dev, forever, supervisor, nodemon etc

[tomotaro1065]

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Posted by Ali Abbas

Hi, how can i use node-dev to run my node project in eclipse? i dont want to restart server after small changes....

[tomotaro1065]

I didn't know about node-dev.
We will consider that Nodeclipse will support it in the future version.

[paulvi]

There are several such tools
node-dev https://github.com/fgnass/node-dev - 380 stars

It's an alternative to tools like supervisor 1100 stars or nodemon 1500 stars that doesn't require any configuration.

There is also
forever https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever - 2700 stars
Maybe we should do our own

[paulvi]

Somehow it is related to running CoffeeScript (we had no issue, so I modified #26 Add CoffeeFileWizard).
For running .coffee, we should use not node executable, but some Node.js CLI (that we should install automatically if it is not present, like in #17 Install Express automatically enhancement )

coffee /path/to/script.coffee
supervisor [options] <program>
forever [action] [options] SCRIPT [script-options]
node-dev foo.js

That is they mainly differ in what CLI to use.

[paulvi]

There is also nodemon #63

with similar syntax

nodemon --debug ./server.js 80

[npdev453]

Looks like if in main app will be something like this... all will be ok :)

spawn("nodemon.cmd", ["main.js"]...
and
spawn("nodemon",[" --debug ./server.js 80"]...

[paulvi]

Nodemon is special case #118