Slim Demon

😈 Slim Demon is a micro library that detects changes in the files of your NodeJS application and restart it quickly and automatically.

🔖 Description

Slim Demon is a micro library based on the native NodeJS API using the core and the native libraries.

You can define a directory and one or more types of files that will be listened to, if any of these files change the application will be restarted quickly and automatically.

📐 How to work with this project

1️⃣ Install this module into your project.

npm i slim-demon --save-dev

2️⃣ Configure the demon

Include the demon configuration in your main package.json file.

Property	Type	Description
rootDirectory	string	The main folder of your NodeJS Application.
extensionsFile	Array	File extensions to review.
mainApplication	string	Command to execute when a change is detected in the files.

Example

"demon": {
  "rootDirectory": "./src",
  "extensionsFile": [
    "js"
  ],
  "mainApplication": "npm run start"
}

3️⃣ Add a custom script

Include the following sentence into your scripts of your packate.json file:

"scripts": {
  "start:watch": "node node_modules/slim-demon"
}

4️⃣ Run

Run this command in your terminal.

$npm run start:watch

📂 Code Scaffolding

/
├── assets 🌈                   # Images Sources.
├── doc                         # QAC Documentation.
├── example                     # Local example.
├── src 📦                      # Main file library.
└── ...

⛽️ Review and Update Sependencies

For review and update all npm dependencies of this project you need install in global npm package "npm-check-updates" npm module.

# Install and Run 
$npm i -g npm-check-updates
$ncu

License

MIT

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