I installed nodemon globally and locally I added it to the environment path. I tried to use flags but nothing works
One month ago (last time I used it), it was running completely fine. Now it's opening nodemon.js in the text editor and I tried everything and nothing worked.
If nodemon server.js doesn't execute nodemon but rather opens the file, one can assume that the OS did not get the executable nodemon app and therefore thought: "Oh! nodemon is a file itself". There also might be a misalignment of nodemon and the node in your system; as in they might be in separate locations.
You can do:
where node
in Powershell and see where node is. Then check for nodemon with:
where nodemon
If it misaligns, do:
npm uninstall -g nodemon
npm cache clean --force
You can recheck with:
where nodemon
If anything is still there, then manually delete it.
Finally, check for node_modules location and reinstall nodemon.
Recheck with:
npm root -g
and install with:
npm install -g nodemon
Wishing it helps.
You can use typescript to run your server:
"scripts": {
"dev": "tsx watch src/index.ts",
"build": "tsc",
"start": "node dist/index.js",
}
