bun run --watch just keeps restarting the server over and over

[andriemc]

I just made a vite-express app with bun, and when I run it in dev (I changed it from nodemon to bun run --watch instead) it keeps rerunning over and over.

(when using nodemon it works as usual, I changed it to nodemon -w src/server/main.ts -x bun run src/server/main.ts so that bun is used)

[andriemc]

this also seems to happen when using tsx watch

[carlos-ravelo-ask]

nodemon on windows also has the same issue, keeps restarting the server.

[andriemc]

this is weird

[nick-cheatwood7]

this also seems to happen when using tsx watch

Try ignoring the temporary file that vite produces:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "tsx watch --clear-screen=false --ignore \"./vite.config.ts.timestamp*\" server.ts"
  }
}

See tsx documentation.

That seemed to fix the issue for me.

[plymer]

After following the link that nick-cheatwood7 posted, I found that upgrading to Vite 6+ has removed this issue as Vite is now creating these temporary files within the node_modules folder. It seems nodemon is now not necessary to run vite-express in a dev environment at all.