Advice, not a bug.

[Digital-Pig-LLC]

Let me preface this with, logically this should work, and if I need to really dig into it I will, I'm just looking for some advice on where to start.
I have a node app running in a Debian 12 container, on Windows (should make no odds).
My app dev env is IntelliJIDEA.
When I save new code, nodemon is not restarting, and I understand why. So, what I came up with is this:
On save, execute a "docker exec" command, which send a shell command to call a shell script.
The shell script is as follows:

PID=`ps aux | grep nodemon | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 1
echo -e "rs\n" > /proc/$PID/fd/0

The idea is simply...get the PID of nodemon, send input to it
Given this nodemon output:

npm start

> article-repo-lister@1.0.0 start
> nodemon -e js,twig -x ./bin/www app.js

[nodemon] 3.1.4
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
[nodemon] watching extensions: js,twig
[nodemon] starting `./bin/www app.js`

...after running the script, I simply see a new line, like so:
`rs

`
So, the rs + newline is being sent to the process, but is not seen by nodemon.

I know, I'm probably cray-cray, I just love following thoughts like this even if I don't end up using it. I guess I need to know how is the input received when I simply use the keyboard as opposed to using the script.

Thanks! Sorry for the lengthy explanation.

• nodemon -v: 3.1.4
• node -v: 22.5.1
• Operating system/terminal environment: Debian 12 Bash
• Using Docker? What image: Yes, node:latest
• Command you ran: nodemon -e js,twig -x ./bin/www app.js

Expected behaviour

nodemon restarts

Actual behaviour

no change

Steps to reproduce

The above contains everything.

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[Digital-Pig-LLC]

Is it really nodemon that receives the "rs" input, or is it node? Hmmm!

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[ankhzet]

@Digital-Pig-LLC just do something like touch .nodemon, where .nodemon is added to the the watched extensions list and git-ignored. As a result, nodemon would detect changes and restart.

[Digital-Pig-LLC]

Thanks @ankhzet I'll give that a try.

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Thank you for contributing <3