Path resolution broken on Windows with 1.14.12

[daguej]

• nodemon -v: 1.14.12
• node -v: 8.4.0
• Operating system/terminal environment: Windows 10

This breaks with the most recent version of nodemon:

> nodemon --watch server --exec node_modules/.bin/ts-node -- server/dev.ts
[nodemon] 1.14.12
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: D:\project\path\server/**/*
[nodemon] starting `node_modules/.bin/ts-node server/dev.ts`
'node_modules' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

If I npm install nodemon@1.14.11:

> nodemon --watch server --exec node_modules/.bin/ts-node -- server/dev.ts
[nodemon] 1.14.11
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: D:\project\path\server/**/*
[nodemon] starting `node_modules/.bin/ts-node server/dev.ts`
dev server listening!

Looks like the forward slashes / are not getting converted to \ on Windows.

[remy]

I can see what change is causing this, but I wanted to ask a couple of questions to get a bit more context:

1. How do you run ts-node without nodemon? Specifically: what is the command you use to get your dev server listening.
2. What terminal in Windows were you using? Command Prompt, Powershell, gitbash, etc…
3. What happens when you run nodemon --watch server --exec node_modules\.bin\ts-node -- server\dev.ts

[andrewburgess]

I'm running into this issue as well. Converting the path separators from / to \\ in the exec parameter seems to fix the issue.

My original run script was:

nodemon -e ts,graphql --exec \"./node_modules/.bin/ts-node --inspect=0.0.0.0:9229 --type-check packages/server/index.ts | ./node_modules/.bin/bunyan\"

which is now failing to start

Changing the path separators to Windows ones so that it works looks like:

nodemon -e ts,graphql --exec \".\\node_modules\\.bin\\ts-node --inspect=0.0.0.0:9229 --type-check packages/server/index.ts | .\\node_modules\\.bin\\bunyan\"

[daguej]

1. Don't really run without nodemon. Our dev server is started using npm start; the start script in package.json is nodemon --watch server --exec node_modules/.bin/ts-node -- server/dev.ts.
2. cmd.exe (ConEmu)
3. It works.

Can't really change the path separators in the start script since that would presumably break it for my *nix colleagues.

[andrewburgess]

@daguej agreed, I was just pointing out that something changed between 1.14.11 and 1.14.12 with regards to path separator handling, and changing them can be a quick fix to prevent being stuck.

I switch between Mac and Windows often, so it's only a temporary solution for me as well

[remy]

For reference (I suspect my own) this was the commit that caused this particular issue: 33fa6f4

[remy]

[deleting my previous comment as it was incorrect]

[oliverbot]

Thanks for raising this issue, and hopefully you're happy with @remy's fix. If you'd like to support this project, you can do just that through the open collective https://opencollective.com/nodemon/donate or at the very least, starring this project would give me @remy a little smile ❤️