Electron Auto-reload on changes

So you describe a hot reload on the readme. Is the angular reload meant by that? this works fine, but is there a way to recompile electron easier without ending and restarting it with npm start? Or is there a watch mode i have not seen?

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install nodemon globally, or as a dev dep either will work.

npm i -g nodemon

then just change this line in package.json to this.

"electron:serve": "wait-on http-get://localhost:4200/ && npm run electron:tsc && nodemon --watch ./main.ts --exec \"npm run electron:tsc && electron . \"",

This will watch the main.ts electron process file. when you save changes nodemon will run the -exec override and recompile the electron main process code and restart it.

[Kaffiend]

There are a couple options, the watchmode for electron i’m not familiar with but you can use a lib like nodemon manage the electron process in development. Tell it to watch the electron files and give it an execute of tsc ./path/to/electron/main and it will kill the main process, compile and run again. the other is with a task runner that has watching, like gulp etc. you can make it watch and kill the process and fire off the build and run again. Does this answer your question?