API

[jonathanong]

would be nice if there were an API. i'd like to embed a server within a server and have the sub app automatically restart itself

[fgnass]

It's undocumented, but you can already do the following:

const nodeDev = require('node-dev');
nodeDev(script, scriptArgs, nodeArgs, opts);

Would this work for you?

[jonathanong]

yep, i just don't know what those arguments are :P all i need are docs or comments!

[fgnass]

nodeDev(
  '/some/script.js', // the script to run
  ['--foo', '-bar'], // command line arguments to pass to the script
  ['--debug'],       // arguments to pass to the node binary
  {
    notify: false,   // whether to use desktop notifications
    deps: true,      // whether to watch files in node_modules too
    allDeps: false,  // whether to watch transitive deps (deps of deps) too
    dedupe: false,   // whether to use https://github.com/thlorenz/dynamic-dedupe
    respawn: false,  // whether to keep watching for changes after the script has exited
    poll: false,     // whether to force polling for file changes
  }
);

[Sawtaytoes]

Are those the defaults you listed?

[chhpt]

@fgnass hi, if i use nodeDev(script, scriptArgs, nodeArgs, opts);, could I got some callback event when code restart?