So I created a new NestJS application with the CLI. I got nodemon installed as a dependency and globally. My package.json looks like this:
"scripts": {
"build": "tsc -p tsconfig.build.json",
"format": "prettier --write \"src/**/*.ts\"",
"start": "ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register src/main.ts",
"start:dev": "nodemon",
"start:debug": "nodemon --config nodemon-debug.json",
and my nodemon.json looks like this:
"watch": ["src"],
"ext": "ts",
"ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts"],
"exec": "ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register src/main.ts"
So very basic setup. But if I try so start the dev server with: npm start:dev, I get this error message:
Usage: npm < command >
where < command > is one of:
access, adduser, audit, bin, bugs, c, cache, ci, cit,
clean-install, clean-install-test, completion, config,
create, ddp, dedupe, deprecate, dist-tag, docs, doctor,
edit, explore, get, help, help-search, hook, i, init,
install, install-ci-test, install-test, it, link, list, ln,
login, logout, ls, org, outdated, owner, pack, ping, prefix,
profile, prune, publish, rb, rebuild, repo, restart, root,
run, run-script, s, se, search, set, shrinkwrap, star,
stars, start, stop, t, team, test, token, tst, un,
uninstall, unpublish, unstar, up, update, v, version, view,
whoami
Specify configs in the ini-formatted file: /Users/XXXXX/.npmrc
or on the command line via: npm <command> --key value
Config info can be viewed via: npm help config
npm@6.6.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
Did you mean this?
start
My npmrc contains some credentials for my github repo from my job !
To run a npm script you must call npm run. So call npm run start:dev.