how to run nodemon in windows from package.json

Question

I'm following a VUE tutorial on a mac (shown in youtube).

In my src/app.js I have only console.log('hi');

The start command for the Mac in package.json as shown on the youtube video is:

"scripts": {
    "start": "./node_modules/nodemon/bin/nodemon.js src/app.js --exec 'npm run lint && node'",
"lint": "./node_modules/.bin/eslint **/*.js"

},

In which case the nodemon was not found.

So I changed the forward slashes to backslashes thus:

"scripts": {
    "start": ".\\node_modules\\nodemon\\bin\\nodemon.js src\\app.js --exec 'npm run lint && node'",
    "lint": ".\\node_modules\\.bin\\eslint **\\*.js"

},

but now when I run npm start I get an alert with error in nodemon.js

 line 1 
 charachter 1
 invalid character
 800A03F6

I tried with a forward slash in the src/app.js and got the same error. Is it something to do with the single quotemark?

The tutorial is here: (start command seen at 21:43) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4cRMaTDUI&t=21m43s

Answer 1

Solved!

OK, the solution was to install nodemon globally

npm i -g nodemon

And then changing the start string to

"start": "nodemon src/app.js --exec 'node && lint'"

Without it, running nodemon.js directly, even when I was inside the bin folder, was giving that error.

Nodemon version was and still is: 1.18.4 in both the local and global install.

Also, I had to change the single quotes in the --exec to escaped double quotes.

Instead of: "start": "nodemon src/app.js --exec 'npm run node && lint'"
I now have: "start": "nodemon src/app.js --exec \"npm run node && lint\""

The problem:

Calling the .js was the problem.

There is a nodemon.cmd command, in the users\<myuser>\AppData\Roaming\npm folder, which is in the windows 10 environment %PATH%.

There probably was a nodemon.cmd that I could call when installed locally. But don't ask me where that is.