gulp task to auto re-start on file changes

Author: kunalkapadia

gulpfile.babel.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import gulp from 'gulp';
 import gulpLoadPlugins from 'gulp-load-plugins';
 import path from 'path';
 import del from 'del';
+import runSequence from 'run-sequence';
 
 const plugins = gulpLoadPlugins();
 
@@ -31,4 +32,23 @@ gulp.task('babel', () => {
 			}
 		}))
 		.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
+});
+
+// Start server with restart on file changes
+gulp.task('nodemon', ['babel'], () => {
+	plugins.nodemon({
+		script: path.join('dist', 'index.js'),
+		ext: 'js',
+		ignore: ['node_modules/**/*.js', 'dist/**/*.js'],
+		tasks: ['babel']
+	});
+});
+
+gulp.task('serve', ['clean'], () => {
+	runSequence('nodemon');
+});
+
+// clean and compile files, the default task
+gulp.task('default', ['clean'], () => {
+	runSequence('babel');
 });

package.json

@@ -1,37 +1,38 @@
 {
-	"name": "express-es6-rest-api-starter",
-	"version": "0.1.0",
-	"description": "Starter project for an ES6 RESTful Express API",
-	"main": "index.js",
-	"private": false,
-	"scripts": {
-		"start": "gulp babel && node dist/index.js",
-		"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
-	},
-	"repository": {
-		"type": "git",
-		"url": "[email protected]:KunalKapadia/express-es6-rest-api-starter.git"
-	},
-	"author": "Kunal Kapadia <[email protected]>",
-	"dependencies": {
-		"body-parser": "~1.13.2",
-		"compression": "^1.6.1",
-		"cors": "^2.7.1",
-		"debug": "^2.2.0",
-		"dotenv": "^2.0.0",
-		"express": "~4.13.1",
-		"http-status": "^0.2.0",
-		"method-override": "^2.3.5",
-		"morgan": "~1.6.1"
-	},
-	"devDependencies": {
-		"babel": "^5.8.23",
-		"del": "^2.2.0",
-		"gulp-babel": "^5.2.1",
-		"gulp-load-plugins": "^1.2.0",
-		"gulp-newer": "^1.1.0",
-		"gulp-nodemon": "^2.0.6",
-		"gulp-plumber": "^1.0.1",
-		"gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0"
-	}
+  "name": "express-es6-rest-api-starter",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "Starter project for an ES6 RESTful Express API",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "private": false,
+  "scripts": {
+    "start": "gulp serve",
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "[email protected]:KunalKapadia/express-es6-rest-api-starter.git"
+  },
+  "author": "Kunal Kapadia <[email protected]>",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "body-parser": "~1.13.2",
+    "compression": "^1.6.1",
+    "cors": "^2.7.1",
+    "debug": "^2.2.0",
+    "dotenv": "^2.0.0",
+    "express": "~4.13.1",
+    "http-status": "^0.2.0",
+    "method-override": "^2.3.5",
+    "morgan": "~1.6.1"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "babel": "^5.8.23",
+    "del": "^2.2.0",
+    "gulp-babel": "^5.2.1",
+    "gulp-load-plugins": "^1.2.0",
+    "gulp-newer": "^1.1.0",
+    "gulp-nodemon": "^2.0.6",
+    "gulp-plumber": "^1.0.1",
+    "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0",
+    "run-sequence": "^1.1.5"
+  }
 }