Page Is Not Refreshing, Until I Close Everything

[ErcDz]

Good morning.

I’m practicing making an Express application. Here is the code:

const express = require("express");

const app = express();

app.get("/", (req, res) => {
  console.log("user hit the resource");
  res.send("Home Page NM");
});

app.listen(5000, () => {
  console.log(`PORT IS 5000`);
});

When I open up my local host, everything will be fine. However, when I change the res.send() to send a different type of text, it will not update even though I refresh the page and “user hit the resource” is displayed on the console again. What can I do?

Thank you.

[lasjorg]

You have to restart the server. You can install the nodemon package to have it auto restart on save.

[ErcDz]

I have it installed, but how do I run it?

[lasjorg]

Did you read the docs?

You just call it instead of node nodemon server.js

You can add it as a dev script as well.

"scripts": {
  "start": "node server.js",
  "dev": "nodemon server.js"
}

[ErcDz]

Thank you, however when I run npm start dev, I still need to manually close the local host tab AND kill the terminal to make it refresh and show new information.

Code:

Terminal:

Local Host:

[ErcDz]

Nevermind, I have found my solution.