Watch CSS setup with node-sass and nodemon

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Watch CSS setup with node-sass and nodemon

npm install --save-dev node-sass nodemon

Add the following scripts to package.json

Build CSS

"build-css": "node-sass -o css css" 

// Where the first 'css' is the destination directory for compiled output.

// Second 'css' is the source folder with sass/scss files

// -o is shorthand for --output

e.g. "build-css": "node-sass --output [destination-directory-for-output] [sass-source-file-directory]"

Watch CSS

"watch-css": "nodemon -e sass -x \"npm run build-css\""

// Where the '-e sass' tells nodemon to monitor files with that extension. Shorthand for '--ext'

// (e.g. 'nodemon -e sass,scss' will watch both types of sass files and restart on changes)

// The '-x' (shorthand for '--exec') will execute the following script

That's working in terminal, but my express server doesn't start unfortunately with this comand -x \"npm run watch-scss\"

Can you teach me how to use nodemon to build js.

I suggest you to have a look at vite: https://vitejs.dev.
It's a simple and yet very powerful tool to build your js project and also to work locally with all the things you would expect to have like auto reload on save etc.

how can i reactivate nodemon, it is not working after while