Restart/stop a nodejs server within Sublime Text 2? [closed]

Answer 1

I suggest you create a watchdog loop.

1) Start watchdog, with command instructiosn how to restart Node

2) Watchdog monitors your src/ folder and will restart Node when changes detected (you save a file)

There are different watchdog applications and libraries out there, but this is known to work across platforms:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog/

At least CoffeeScript compiler can do monitoring internally, so you don't need any kind of third party solution for restarting it automatically. But don't know about barebone Node :(

Answer 2

I think the best solution for you here is to use a module called Nodemon which restarts your node server everytime you save a file inside the project.

https://github.com/remy/nodemon

Answer 3

If you build your server from sublime using the ctrl+b command it will run the server and then you can kill it by using the default ctrl+break command. Since I am on a laptop that doesn't have a break key I modified the key binding to be something I do have (ctrl+alt+k).