Verbose output?

[olalonde]

nodemon doesn't seem to be working as expected. I start it from a Makefile that looks like this (I use foreman to load my .env file):

watch:
    ./node_modules/.bin/nodemon --exec foreman -- run ./scripts/test.sh

And it runs tests for all directories in packages/ (each have their own node_modules/ directory). So I would like to make sure that nodemon ignores packages/*/node_modules and also make sure it monitors all .js files in packages/*/. What's the best way to get more info out of nodemon?

[olalonde]

Ok, apparently there is a --verbose flag. Reduced the amount of files watched with --ignore "packages/*/node_modules". It is still a bit slow (seems to be eating my CPU). Is there any way to get a better performance on OS X?

[olalonde]

Also can nodemon understand foreman .env files? It seems nodemon picks up file changes but won't restart the underlying exec'd process.

[remy]

There's --verbose which gives you more output. For debugging you can also set the env value of DEBUG=nodemon,nodemon:* and it will list exactly what it's watching.

Re: .env files, no, that's specific to foreman, but I thought that foreman would push all those env values into the shell it runs nodemon in, and nodemon will pass all those to the node instance.