Nodemon: How to manually restart nodemon in a Docker container?

Created on 17 Oct 2018 · 3Comments · Source: remy/nodemon

https://github.com/remy/nodemon#manual-restarting

nodemon -v: 1.18.4
node -v: 10.4.1
Operating system/terminal environment: node alpine docker image
Command you ran: docker exec -ti hash sh, rs, rsr, rsn, /node_modules/nodemon/bin/node nodemon.js rs

Expected behaviour

Manually trigger a restart as if I change a file.

Actual behaviour

Doesn't happen

Steps to reproduce

Install Docker
Create a Node:Alpine 10 image
Add Nodemon
Build and Start the Container
docker ps
docker exec -ti hash sh
Restart manually, how?

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Source

Makoehle

Most helpful comment

@danizavtz Thank you I know those. I'd like to know about the manual update as described in the official documentation. I'm connected to a server via shell. I'm forcing nodemon by editing a file but I'd like to know how to do it without having to modify a file as shown here

Makoehle on 19 Oct 2018

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Hello, have you tried to use docker-compose?
You can share your current path . with your container running app folder, using a volume.
here is my docker-compose.yml, just for inspiration.

version: '3'

services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"
    environment:
      MYSQL_USER: root
      MYSQL_DATABASE: mydbname
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: root

  web:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    command: /entrypoint.sh
    volumes:
      - ./webclient/.tmp/serve:/gamma/webclient
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    depends_on:
      - db

Another way to force the restart is doing a docker cp and force file changes inside file system of your container.

danizavtz on 18 Oct 2018

Makoehle on 19 Oct 2018

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