Dev environment

[Nemikolh]

We are currently using vagrant to control the dev environment. The work-flow is roughly:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh
# In the vagrant shell:
cd /vagrant
export NODE_ENV='development' && npm run build-server && npm run server

which is not exactly sexy and easy.

Besides, when developing we manually recompile and restart the dev server and we often end-up starting other services like mongo-express or node-inspector.

All this could be simplified a lot. Compare it to the client work-flow which is:

npm start # only once...

If someone is motivated, a good step could be to have the server automatically started after:

vagrant up # Run mongo-express, build the server and start it

Bonus: Offer an option to have a watch mode like in the client where the server is automatically rebuild and restarted when a server file change.