Nodemon: trying to watch parent directory doesn't work...

Created on 24 Jul 2014 · 8Comments · Source: remy/nodemon

when I pass --watch ../ (or anything similar) it converts the dots into astrikses...
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mkdir -p /foo/bar
cd /foo/bar
nodemon -w ../

The result:

[nodemon] 1.9.1
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: /foo/**/*

And it's the expected behaviour: we are watching anything in /foo, even if it is in subdirectories.

I can't find the problem?

tleb on 27 Apr 2016

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Same issue for me too. I even tried putting in the absolute path and it doesn't work either.

djengineerllc on 8 Apr 2015

Anybody have a solution for this one?

tnrich on 27 Apr 2016

mkdir -p /foo/bar
cd /foo/bar
nodemon -w ../

The result:

[nodemon] 1.9.1
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: /foo/**/*

And it's the expected behaviour: we are watching anything in /foo, even if it is in subdirectories.

I can't find the problem?

tleb on 27 Apr 2016

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stale[bot] on 5 Dec 2017

Same problem here.

unckleg on 4 Oct 2018

What behaviour have you got? What do you expect?

tleb on 4 Oct 2018

When i try to watch ( ../ ) parent directory there is no response from nodemon on change.
Watching just works for files that are nested or in root of package.json file.

unckleg on 5 Oct 2018

This seems to be working correctly in nodemon version 1.19.1 with both --watch .. and --watch ../.