This post shows you how auto reload a Loopback application after making changes to your code. You no longer have to stop the server and restart it.
For that we will grunt with nodemon module. So let’s install them
$ npm install --save grunt grunt-cli grunt-nodemonNow let’s configure grunt to perform the auto-reload. Place this gruntfile.js file in the root your Loopback application.
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'use strict';
module.exports = function(grunt) {
// Project Configuration
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
nodemon: {
dev: {
script: 'server/server.js',
options: {
args: ['dev'],
nodeArgs: ['--debug'],
callback: function (nodemon) {
nodemon.on('log', function (event) {
console.log(event.colour);
});
},
env: {
PORT: '3000'
},
cwd: __dirname,
ignore: ['node_modules/**'],
ext: 'js,coffee',
watch: ['server', 'common'],
delay: 1000,
legacyWatch: true
}
}
},
env: {
dev: {
NODE_ENV: 'dev'
}
}
});
// Making grunt default to force in order not to break the project.
grunt.option('force', true);
// Default task(s).
grunt.registerTask('default', ['nodemon']);
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-nodemon');
};
Chances are you already use grunt to perform other tasks, in this case just add the nodemon
section (line 8 to 30) and the loading instruction (line 45).
To start your Loopback server, go to the root of you application and just type the command grunt