nodemon.json

nodemon.json configuration files

nodemon.json

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Reference

Fields

Generated directly from the schema, following local $refs, to two levels of nesting.

Field	Type	Description
`colours`	`boolean`	set to false to disable color output default: `true`
`cwd`	`string`	change into <dir> before running the script
`delay`	`number`	debounce restart for a number of milliseconds default: `0`
`dump`	`boolean`	print full debug configuration default: `false`
`exec`	`oneOf`	execute script with "app", ie. -x "python -v". May use variables.
`execMap`	`object`	The global config file is useful for setting up default executables
`exitcrash`	`boolean`	Exit nodemon after crash
`ext`	`string`	extensions to look for, ie. "js,jade,hbs" default: `"*"`
`ignore`	`oneOf`	Ignore directory or file. One entry per ignored value. Wildcards are allowed.
`ignoreRoot`	`array<string>`	root paths to ignore
`legacyWatch`	`boolean`	use polling to watch for changes (typically needed when watching over a network/Docker) default: `false`
`noUpdateNotifier`	`boolean`	opt-out of update version check default: `false`
`nodeArgs`	`array`	arguments to pass to node if exec is "node"
`pollingInterval`	`number`	combined with legacyWatch, milliseconds to poll for (default 100) default: `100`
`quiet`	`boolean`	minimise nodemon messages to start/stop only default: `false`
`runOnChangeOnly`	`boolean`	execute script on change only, not startup default: `false`
`signal`	`anyOf`	—
`spawn`	`boolean`	force nodemon to use spawn (over fork) [node only] default: `false`
`stdin`	`boolean`	set to false to have nodemon pass stdin directly to child process default: `true`
`verbose`	`boolean`	show detail on what is causing restarts default: `false`
`watch`	`oneOf`	Watch directory or file. One entry per watched value. Wildcards are allowed.

Audit

What we found in this schema

Declared draft: draft-07
Validates cleanly against its own meta-schema.
Has 3 place(s) where keywords sit beside $ref. Under draft-07 those keywords are silently ignored by every conforming validator — first at #/properties/ignore/oneOf/1/items.
23 properties, 91% carrying a description, max nesting depth 7.

Standards

Specification sections for the keywords in this schema

Keyword	Document	Section
`$id`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.2.1 — The "$id" Keyword
`$ref`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.2.3.1 — Direct References with "$ref"
`$schema`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.1.1 — "$schema"
`additionalProperties`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.3 — "additionalProperties"
`anyOf`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.2.1.2 — "anyOf"
`const`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.3 — "const"
`default`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.2 — "default"
`description`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.1 — "title" and "description"
`examples`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.5 — "examples"
`items`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.1.2 — "items"
`oneOf`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.2.1.3 — "oneOf"
`properties`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.1 — "properties"
`required`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.5.3 — "required"
`type`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.1 — "type"

Documents

JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12 — JSON Schema: A Media Type for Describing JSON Documents, A. Wright, H. Andrews, B. Hutton, G. Dennis, Eds., 2022. draft-bhutton-json-schema-01. An expired Internet-Draft with no formal standing in the IETF standards process; it is nonetheless the specification of record for JSON Schema 2020-12, published by json-schema.org.
JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12 — JSON Schema Validation: A Vocabulary for Structural Validation of JSON, A. Wright, H. Andrews, B. Hutton, Eds., 2022.
RFC 8259 (STD 90) — The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format, T. Bray, Ed., 2017. The format a schema describes.
RFC 6901 — JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer. Defines the pointer syntax used by $ref fragments and the ~0 / ~1 escapes.

Source

Attribution

This schema comes from SchemaStore, distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Copyright 2015–present Mads Kristensen and contributors. View the original file. The field table and audit on this page are generated by JSONTools.tools; the schema itself is unmodified.

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