• nodemon -v:1.18.9
• node -v:10.14.2
• Operating system/terminal environment: MacOS High Sierra
• Using Docker? What image: No
• Command you ran: Used required version of nodemon

So I have a weird/interesting use case of nodemon. I want to conditionally restart the server (which is possible), however the times I don't want to restart the server, I would like to send a message/event to the child process/instance of my code.

Expected behaviour

I have looked at the docs and skimmed through the source code, I don't think its possible.

Actual behaviour

Nothing happens

Steps to reproduce

Here is the code I use:

const server = nodemon({
  watch: ['src'],
  ext, // assume .js
  ignore: [path.join(cwd, `./src/routes/**/*.${ext}`)], // i am excluding this folder so I can conditionally restart
  exec, // node src/index.js
});

// this is fine
server.on('start', function () {
  console.log('nodemon started');
}).on('crash', function () {
  console.log('script crashed for some reason');
}).on('restart', () => {
  console.log('nodemon is restarting')
})

chokidar.watch(
  path.join(cwd, './src/routes', `**/*.js`),
  {
    ignored: /(^|[\/\\])\../, // ignore dot files
  }
).on('change', (path) => {
  if (something) {
    nodemon.restart(); // great
  } else {
    nodemon.send('message', 'dont restart but do this'); // UNIMPLEMENTED/HOW DO I DO THIS?
  }
});

One possible solution is to give access to the child_process that nodemon opens up.

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