Running Locomotive.js with nodemon

Easy auto-restart of a locomotive.js server when editing files.

I want to be able to have locomotive.js recognise when I have changed files and automatically restart the server so I don’t have to CTRL-C/up arrow/Enter after every edit.

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Requirements:

1. Locomotive
2. nodemon

Create a file named server.js in the root of the locomotive project and add this code:

var locomotive = require('locomotive'),
          
env = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development',
          
port = process.env.PORT || 3000,
          
address = '0.0.0.0';

locomotive.boot(__dirname, env, function(err, server) {
      
	if (err) { throw err; }
      
		server.listen(port, address, function() {
        
		var addr = this.address();
        
		console.log('listening on %s:%d', addr.address, addr.port);
      
	});
  
});

Now, in the terminal, I cd to the root dir of my project and type $ nodemon server.js. Now whenever I make a change to any of the project’s source files the nodemon instance recognises this and restarts the server so all I have to do is refresh the page to see changes === cool