next.js/examples/custom-server-nodemon

Custom server with Nodemon example

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example custom-server-nodemon custom-server-nodemon-app

Download manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/custom-server-nodemon
cd custom-server-nodemon

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

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The idea behind the example

The example shows how you can apply Nodemon to a custom server to have live reload of the server code without being affected by the Next.js universal code.