kmon

ASP.NET 5 wrapper for nodemon. It will use nodemon to watch your source folder for changes and kill and restart your web server, or console application, whenever a change is detected. Main use is when making web apps without Visual Studio and it's design time host.

Add kmon to your project:

dnu install kmon to install from Nuget.org

Add a mon command to your project.json file:

Web Project

"commands": {
        "web": "Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting --server Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener --server.urls http://localhost:5000",
        "kestrel": "Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting --server Kestrel --server.urls http://localhost:5001",
        "gen": "Microsoft.Framework.CodeGeneration",
        "mon" : "kmon --ext cs,json,js,cshtml --server kestrel"
},

Command Line Project

"commands": {
    "run": "run",
    "mon" : "kmon --ext cs --server run"
  },

From the command line, run dnx . mon. It's pronounced "kuh-mon".

You can call it something else than mon, but then you can't shout out "kuh-mon!" when you run it.

kmon passes parameters on to nodemon so --ext cs,json,js are nodemon parameters telling it to watch files ending in one of those extensions. The --server parameter is used to specify the necessary hosting client. Specify web for Windows and kestrel for OSX, Linux.

If either --ext or --server is not specified the default are shown above.

Known issues

This is the first release and a work in progress.

• Little or no error handling.