Use forever-monitor in development only

packages/strapi/bin/strapi-start.js

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ const path = require('path');
 const _ = require('lodash');
 const forever = require('forever-monitor');
 
+// Local Strapi dependencies.
+const isLocalStrapiValid = require('../lib/private/isLocalStrapiValid');
+
 // Logger.
 const logger = require('strapi-utils').logger;
 
@@ -25,28 +28,23 @@ const logger = require('strapi-utils').logger;
 
 module.exports = function () {
   try {
-    // Require server configurations
-    const server = require(path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'config', 'environments', 'development', 'server.json'));
-    const options = {};
-
     // Set NODE_ENV
     if (_.isEmpty(process.env.NODE_ENV)) {
       process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development';
     }
 
-    if (server.reload === true && process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
+    // Require server configurations
-      _.assign(options, {
+    const server = require(path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'config', 'environments', 'development', 'server.json'));
+
+    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' && server.reload === true) {
+
+      const options =  _.assign({}, {
         silent: false,
         watch: true,
         watchDirectory: process.cwd(),
-        killTree: true // Kills the entire child process tree on `exit`
+        killTree: true, // Kills the entire child process tree on `exit`,
+        spinSleepTime: 0
       });
-    } else {
-      _.assign(options, {
-        silent: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
-        watch: false
-      });
-    }
 
       const child = new (forever.Monitor)('server.js', options);
 
@@ -54,13 +52,33 @@ module.exports = function () {
       child.on('restart', function() {
         console.log();
         logger.info('Restarting due to changes...');
-      console.log();
       });
 
       // Start child process
-    child.start();
+      return child.start();
+    }
+
+    // Use the app's local `strapi` in `node_modules` if it's existant and valid.
+    const localStrapiPath = path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'node_modules', 'strapi');
+
+    if (isLocalStrapiValid(localStrapiPath, process.cwd())) {
+      return require(localStrapiPath).start(afterwards);
+    }
+
+    // Otherwise, if no workable local `strapi` module exists,
+    // run the application using the currently running version
+    // of `strapi`. This is probably always the global install.
+    return require('../lib/')().start(afterwards);
+
+    function afterwards(err, strapi) {
+      if (err) {
+        logger.error(err.stack ? err.stack : err);
+
+        strapi ? strapi.stop() : process.exit(1);
+      }
+    }
   } catch (e) {
-    console.error(e);
+    logger.error(e);
     process.exit(0);
   }
 };