Javascript, check backend when starting server

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This might be a dumb question and not what you really want to do.
But in my Javascript Projects which use a backend most of them i run Nodemon when starting development. And yes if something happens I would see it there even before I commit.

Still I would just want to see that the server.js runs flawlessly in my Ci.

So my question is simply using nodemon/node how do I go about use them in CircleCi.
If I do like I do now just having “start”: “nodemon server.js” or “start”: “node server.js” my server will run endlessly and I won’t get any result. Doesn’t matter if I have any error or it works out ok. It just runs until I force stop it.

This is my example URL:

There is 2 possible errors there I would like to catch somehow.

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Hello

We are following up on old tickets in the hope of helping other people running into the same issues.

Following the documentation for nodemon here we would expect the process to keep running until it is killed as it will keep watching for an updates. Due to this we would recommend running this as a background process while your other jobs are running as this will mean that once the other jobs have finished it will also stop the whole workflow.

Kind Regards
Owen Oliver