linkemon

A tiny wrapper around nodemon that will automatically watch all your linked node_modules while ignoring all the rest. As the name says, it should solve your nodemon problems when you use a lot linked modules, such as when having monorepos (Lerna, Yarn Workspaces, etc.).

Prerequisites

Make sure you have nodemon already installed

npm install -g nodemon

In Mac OS you will also need the realpath utility available in your PATH. You can install it with the following:

brew install coreutils

Install

npm install -g linkemon 

Usage

Use the script as you would normally use nodemon. Behind the scenes the script will add any linked module in the ./node_modules directory to the watchlist. For example:

linkemon -V server.js

Arguments

The following arguments are used directly by linkemon and therefore will not be forwarded to nodemon.

--ignorePackage

Excludes a specific linked package from the watchlist

linkemon --ignorePackage myLinkedPackage1 --ignorePackage myLinkedPackage2 server.js