nodemon keeps looking for index.js file even if i specified otherwise, thus throwing error.

[maotora]

Hello,
when i run nodemon ./build
I get Error: Cannot find module /path/to/project/home/index.js while i've explicitly specified that it should check in the build/ directory, this is persisting even when i write nodemon ./build/index.js.

In the build/index.js i only have a console.log('hello world'); string.

Note: this error is not in nodemon: 1.8.1.

Am I missing something?

[tleb]

I just can't reproduce your problem:

mkdir build
echo 'console.log("Hello World")' > build/index.js
nodemon ./build

Which starts nodemon:

[nodemon] 1.9.1
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: *.*
[nodemon] starting `node ./build`
Hello World
[nodemon] clean exit - waiting for changes before restart

It seems you didn't give us all the information. Is there anything special you didn't mention?

[maotora]

yeah, i'm sorry but i'm just stupid sometimes.
I just placed nodemon in scripts and after multiple attempts of installing and unistalling nodemon
I ended up running nodemon instead of npm run nodemon ..
Thank you for taking your time tho, you opened my eyes. hehehe

[nullivex]

I know it might this not be relevant right now, however this is google result 2 for the issue, but I had this issue as well.

The problem was that I copied a config file off of stackoverflow like follows:

"scripts": {
    "dev": "nodemon --config nodemon.json"
  },

{
    "verbose": true,
    "execMap": {
        "js": "node --harmony"
    },
    "script": "server.js",
    "ext": "js mustache"
}

The issue is that the package.json really needs to be

"scripts": {
    "dev": "nodemon --config nodemon.json server.js"
  },

Hope this helps someone.

[hseritt]

FWIW, I ran into this same error but added the following as a script in packages.json:

"start": "nodemon -w server server/server.js"

After this, I could run: npm start successfully.