Watch .cjs files by default

[RobertSandiford]

"By default, nodemon looks for files with the .js, .mjs, .coffee, .litcoffee, and .json"

This seems like madness! : )

In an ES6 project I often have to use a .cjs file here or there. If nodemon is watching .mjs files by default why not .cjs files?

[remy]

Not sure why madness. The project was created over 11 years ago.

I've personally never used .cjs (nor .mjs, but I got a PR for support).

I'll leave this open for a while and if there's interest from others via 👍 then we can add it in. Otherwise it's a personal config setting.

[RobertSandiford]

Sure, I understand. There's a reason for everything. It just seemed that way looking at it today.

It's a noob of a noob trap as it is. I figured it what it was in about 10 minutes (mixture of .js and .cjs in my project), but I can imagine quite a bit of frustration being caused by it.

I guess there are a host of other extensions that -could- be included. .jsx, .ts and .tsx come to mind.

[lorand-horvath]

@RobertSandiford A quick solution would be to add a nodemon.json config file containing the extensions you want watching:
{"ext": "js mjs cjs json"}
I took that from this sample: https://github.com/remy/nodemon/wiki/Sample-nodemon.json , tested it and seems to be working:
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,cjs,json

[RobertSandiford]

@lorand-horvath or --ext=cjs,js

But just unnecessary to make people do that, hence the thread.

[lorand-horvath]

@RobertSandiford Agreed, cjs could be added as default, I don't think it would create any issues.
@remy PR added #1957 Hope I edited the proper location :)

[lorand-horvath]

@RobertSandiford @remy It seems strange, but I've just tested the inline option below and it doesn't work with latest nodemon 2.0.15
nodemon --ext="js,mjs,cjs,json" index.js
It returns:
[nodemon] starting 'node --ext=js,mjs,cjs,json index.js'
node: bad option: --ext=js,mjs,cjs,json
Am I missing something?

[remy]

Space not the = symbol separates the arguments IIRC

[RobertSandiford]

Yes, you are correct
nodemon --ext js,cjs,mjs script

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[remy]

Am reviewing. Not totally sure about the PR (just to buy a little more time from stale-bot)

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