Node.js applications are not editable out of the box

[mlabuda]

Basically, when I create a new Node.js application, changes done even to static content (such as .html, xhtml pages etc.) are not shown until I restart server. So all rsynced changes won't get effect until I restart it. There is a official way to develop and that is setting up DEV_MODE environment variable to true, which enables nodemon to check changes and restart application. Because there is almost zero turnaround for restarting Node.js application, I think it would be good to have DEV_MODE set to true by default to allow users modify their applications out of the box - without any need to add environment variable to deployment and respin application pod.

See also https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-22362 for more reference to this issue.

[praveenkumar]

@hferentschik Any opinion about it?

[hferentschik]

+100, but afaiu this is a problem of the s2i for NodeJS. I don't think this is something we control.

[hferentschik]

My guess is that this is the place to look https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-nodejs-container