watch_reapp

Restarts your nodejs app when you save a file in your specified directory.

Ignores supplied Arrays of filenames, paths or wildcard names. (optional)

LOGS your process to file. (optional)

watch_reapp can be deployed in one line require('watch_reapp')('./your_app.js')

How to use (the simple way)

Create a js file.

//MODIFICATIONS IN THIS FILE WILL NOT BE UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY
//require watch_reapp module
const watch_reapp = require('watch_reapp')
//run module, with path to app you wish to execute and restart
watch_reapp('./server.js')//<--path to your app in here!

Default settings without config object

local dir ('./') is watched,

files with extensions ['.js', '.html', '.css', '.json'] will be added to watch list on execution,

default directories being ignored ['./node_modules/', './.vscode/','./.git/']

• dir = './'
• watch_ext = ['.js', '.html', '.css', '.json']
• ignore_dirs = ['./node_modules/', './.vscode/', './.git/']
• ignore_files = []
• ignore_dirs_containing = []
• log = false
• log_dir = './LOGS/'

How to use (with OPTIONAL config)

//MODIFICATIONS IN THIS FILE WILL NOT BE UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY
//create a config object
const config = {
    dir :'./',//this directory is the starting point for all sub-folders and files scanned
    watch_ext : ['.js','.html', '.css', '.json'], //file extensions to watch
    ignore_dirs : ['./node_modules/', './.vscode/', './MONGODATABASE/'], //directories to ignore, 
    ignore_dirs_containing : ['ZDEP_'], //wildcard strings directory
    ignore_files : ['./ignore_file.js'], //files to ignore, 
    log : true, //define log directory default log dir will be "./LOGS/" if log_dir is not supplied
    log_dir : './LOGS/' //bare in mind that this folder will be added to the ignore_dirs list
}
//require watch_reapp module
const watch_reapp = require('watch_reapp')
//run module, with path to app you wish to run and add the config object as second parameter
watch_reapp('./server.js', config)

be sure to re-include ['./node_modules/', './.vscode/', './.git/'] to ignore_dirs; you might end up watching thousands of files otherwise; your computer could stop function in a very unimpressive manner.

Updates

1.1.0 (2017-10-17)

• added JSDoc support (when trying to use watch_reapp you should now receive informative and helpful intellisense, tested in visual studio code, technically you shouldnt even need this readme anymore)
• made LOG keeping optional (so the folder is no longer created if you don't want LOGS, the folder LOGS will also not be ignored any longer)
• added custom log directory, careful log directory will be ignored by default

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