Auto reloading a Sails.js app on code changes?

Question

Currently is seems that for any code change in a sails.js app you have to manually stop the sails server and run sails lift again before you can see the changes

Answer 1

install nodemon globally or locally.

npm install nodemon --save
npm install nodemon -g

install sails locally in you project as follows

npm install sails --save

then change package.json

from

"scripts": {
  "debug": "node debug app.js",
  "start": "node app.js"
},

to

"scripts": {
   "debug": "node debug app.js",
   "start": "node app.js",
   "dev": "export NODE_ENV=development && nodemon --ignore 'tmp/*' app.js && exit 0"
},

then

npm run dev

Answer 2

If you're using Sails 0.11, you can install this hook to automatically reload when you change models or controllers (views do not require reloading):

npm install sails-hook-autoreload

https://www.npmjs.com/package/sails-hook-autoreload