There are some answers here as suggested in the comments.
However they are not REPL friendly, and might even use extra modules.
Here is a one line solution that you can paste in your REPL, inspired by the discussion on the other question:
function nocache(module) {require("fs").watchFile(require("path").resolve(module), () => {delete require.cache[require.resolve(module)]})}
The function will delete your module from the cache each time the file changes.
To use it, just paste it in the REPL, call nocache("d:/myapp.js")
, then use require
normally.
> function nocache(module) {require("fs").watchFile(require("path").resolve(module), () => {delete require.cache[require.resolve(module)]})}
> nocache("d:/myapp.js");
> var myapp = require("d:/myapp.js");
......
> myapp = require("d:/myapp.js");
....