Nodemon doesn't restart on file delete

• nodemon -v: 2.0.4
• node -v: v14.2.0
• Operating system/terminal environment: Linux Ubuntu 20.04
• Using Docker? What image: N/A
• Command you ran: N/A

Expected behaviour

According to this issue, Nodemon should restart when a file is deleted as it does when a file is added.

Actual behaviour

Nodemon doesn’t restart at all. I’m unsure if this feature was added at some point and then removed or if this is a problem with my setup but I’ve not been able to get Nodemon to restart on file deletion.

It works just fine when I edit or add files.

Is there a workaround for this?

Steps to reproduce

1. Have Nodemon watch your project root:
2. Delete a file
3. Nodemon doesn’t restart

[JGJP]

I personally think it’s fine for you to not fix it, but you keep bringing up the fact that nobody submitted a PR. Put in the perspective of this repo being 10 years old, I think 24 days is a really small window to give for a PR to be submitted. It’s also possible that people just decided to use something like onchange instead, or in combination (as I did)

[elitan]

@remy Could this issue be solved by adding

watcher.on('unlink', filterAndRestart);

here: https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/main/lib/monitor/watch.js#L85

It seems to match what chokidar is using: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/blob/master/lib/constants.js#L12