MERN stack tutorial

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Hi everyone. I was doing this tutorial (MERN Stack Course - ALSO: Convert Backend to Serverless with MongoDB Realm - YouTube) of FCC and coding along. But when in minute 23 nodemon is used, my terminal keeps giving this error:

[nodemon] Internal watch failed: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, watch ‘//wsl$/Ubuntu/home/sahand/Projects/Restaurant-Reviews/backend’

I understand that the EISDIR error means that the command is looking for a file but I am giving it a folder, but server.js is a file!

i’d appreciate it if anyone could tell me what is happening here.

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You are inside the backend folder when running the command right?

Try adding nodemon to the dev dependencies and use it as a script inside package.json (instead of running it as a global install).

Not sure if any ambiguity exists (say a folder /server and a file server.js ) and you give nodemon the file extension with the run command if it would pick the right one or not. I have never really used it as a global install (I think it is best to avoid globals).