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Nick Huemmer
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Nick Huemmer
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Nick Huemmer
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Why do we use `npm start` instead of `node` or `nodemon` to start the server?

This is a bit different that how we've been shown in earlier Treehouse material to start the server. What's going on with that command?

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Kyrill Gobber
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I think it doesn't really matter how you run the project. I still use nodemon, and it works fine. You could also use your IDEs run function or whatever you like I guess.

Brian Wright
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Brian Wright
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I don't think the practice is specific to this one course so some people might not have nodemon installed. You can always edit your package.json start script to '"start": "nodemon ./bin/www"' if you want to use nodemon.