An unobtrusive utility script to run loopback apps with nodemon for debugging purposes.

ako-run-dev.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

main() {
    read -r -d '' nodemonjson <<EOF
{
    "ignoreRoot": [".git", ".nyc_output", "nodemon.json"]
}
EOF
    trap "uninstall_nodemon" INT
    npm install nodemon
    echo "$nodemonjson" > nodemon.json
    ./node_modules/.bin/nodemon . 
}

uninstall_nodemon() {
    trap SIGINT
    rm nodemon.json
    npm uninstall nodemon
    exit 0
}

main "$@"