Just specify watching html on the nodemon command line (or better yet, add a config file).
From the documentation:
By default, nodemon looks for files with the .js, .coffee, .litcoffee,
and .json extensions. If you use the--execoption and monitor app.py
nodemon will monitor files with the extension of .py. However, you can
specify your own list with the -e (or –ext) switch like so:
nodemon -e js,jadeNow nodemon will restart on any changes to files in
the directory (or subdirectories) with the extensions .js, .jade.