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Fedora is looking for nodejs rather than node which is the binary that nodemon kicks off.
The solution is a simple workaround, Linux 101:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/local/bin/node
Fedora and Ubuntu pakage node as nodejs, because node.dpkg is
Description-en: Amateur Packet Radio Node program The node program accepts TCP/IP and packet radio network connections and presents users with an interface that allows them to make gateway connections to remote hosts using a variety of amateur radio protocols. They make the binary is nodejs, rather than node. So long as you're not using that Packet Radio Node Program mentioned above the workaround will work.
Thank you @EvanCarroll
If you're using nodemon with forever (perhaps in a production environment) you can combine the two together. This way if the script crashes, forever restarts the script, and if there are file changes, nodemon restarts your script. For more detail, see issue 30.
To acheive this you need to include the --exitcrash flag to ensure nodemon exits if the script crashes (or exits unexpectedly):
forever nodemon --exitcrash server.js
To test this, you can kill the server.js process and forever will restart it. If you touch server.js nodemon will restart it.
Note that I would not recommend using nodemon in a production environment - but that's because I wouldn't want it restart without my explicit instruction.