Hotnode
Hotnode is a package that allows you to automatically reload your code by just saving the source in your editor.
Feature Overview
- Automatically reloads your node.js code on file change
- Watches .js files in the current directory and its subdirectories
Installation
The following versions are required for Hotnode:
- Node.js >= 0.2.2
- npm >= 0.1.25
To see growl messages as soon as your node.js process has been restarted, you will need http://growl.info/extras.php#growlnotify, a command-line based tool for growl.
For notifications on Ubuntu / Gnome, you need libnotify:
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
Install it simply via npm:
npm install hotnode
Instructions
Instead of starting your app directly with node app.js Launch it with hotnode app.js
Hotcoffee
Hotnode also includes an executable called hotcoffee
which automatically runs the given file with the coffee
command and watches all CoffeeScript files in the directory.
License
Copyright (c) 2010 http://www.filshmedia.net, released under the MIT license