Why Your Nodemon Restarts Feel Flaky — and How to Fix Them
Flaky nodemon restarts usually come from atomic editor writes, missing debounce, and bad ignore globs. Here's how to fix all three with chokidar, delay, and correct patterns.
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nodemonNative OS Events vs. Polling for Large Project File Watching
File Watching Strategy for High-Volume Directories When managing large-scale Node.js projects, the choice of file watching mechanism in nodemon impacts both system resource utilization and restart reliability. The default behavior relies on native OS events via chokidar, which offers low latency but is subject to system file descriptor limits. Alternatively,
Nodemon restarts inconsistently after file changes: chokidar default vs --legacy watcher behavior
Watcher choice and restart timing I am configuring nodemon for a development workflow and need to understand one unresolved point before locking in our setup: since nodemon v1.0 switched its default file watcher from Node's native fs.watch to chokidar, restart timing and resource usage reportedly differ from the older implementation. The --legacy flag is doc