EDIT: Updated for the latest version of nodemon!
I was struggling with the same thing for my development environment until I noticed that nodemon's API allows us to change its default behaviour in order to execute a custom command. For example:
nodemon --watch 'src/**/*.ts' --ignore 'src/**/*.spec.ts' --exec 'ts-node' src/index.ts
Or even better: externalize nodemon's config to a nodemon.json file with the following content, and then just run nodemon, as Sandokan suggested:
{ "watch": ["src/**/*.ts"], "ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts"], "exec": "ts-node ./index.ts" }
By virtue of doing this, you'll be able to live-reload a ts-node process without having to worry about the underlying implementation.
Cheers!
Updated for the most recent version of nodemon:
You can run this, for example:
nodemon --watch "src/**" --ext "ts,json" --ignore "src/**/*.spec.ts" --exec "ts-node src/index.ts"
Or create a nodemon.json file with the following content:
{
"watch": ["src"],
"ext": "ts,json",
"ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts"],
"exec": "ts-node ./src/index.ts" // or "npx ts-node src/index.ts"
}
and then run nodemon with no arguments.