tiny-nodemon

To use with gulp + browser-sync

Install

$ npm install --save-dev tiny-nodemon

Usage

tiny-nodemon is almost exactly like regular gulp-nodemon, but doesn't provide nodemon, and implements a simpler monitoring engine (simpler means also less powerful).

import { tinynodemon } from 'tiny-nodemon'
let mon = tinyNodemon('script.js') || tinyNodemon(config)

Config

    script: file............The script to run and monitor.
    args  : [...]...........List of string arguments
    cwd   : path............Current working directory of the child process.
    env   : {key:value}.....Environment key-value pairs.
    done  : callback........Called on script exit.

Note: if the script is omitted, tiny-nodemon will exit.

Api

    mon.restart()...........restart s the child process.
    mon.quit()..............kills the child process and exit.
    mon.usage().............prints that helper text.
    mon.dump()..............prints monitor status.

Events

    mon.on('start').........child process has started.
    mon.on('crash').........child process has crashed.
    mon.on('exit')..........child process has cleanly exited.
    mon.on('restart').......child process has restarted.
    mon.on('ready').........child process sent server-ready message.

Example

In gulpfile.js

import { tinyNodemon } from 'tiny-nodemon';

gulp.task('start', function (done) {
  var mon = tinyNodemon({
    'script': 'server.js',
    'args': [
        '-p 3000',
        '--host localhost',
        '--verbose'
    ],
    'cwd': process.cwd(),
    'env': {
        'NODE_ENV': 'development'
    },
    'done': done
  })
  .on('crash', () => {
      // pause browsersync and restart...
  })
  .on('ready', () => {
      // start borwsersync
  })
})

In server.js

import { servermon } from 'tiny-nodemon';

var server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
...
})
.listen(port, hostname, () => {
    console.info(`listening on http://${hostname}:${port}`);
    servermon.ready();
});

// optionally
process.on('SIGTERM', handle);
process.on('SIGINT', handle);

function handle(signal) {
    server.close(() => {
        servermon.exit(signal);
    });
};

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