I discovered working on [**KI/KD**](https://github.com/RayBenefield/kikd) that nodemon defaults to blocking `node_modules` as a whole, not just the root `node_modules`. So I need to add a `nodemon.json` file to update the `ignoreRoot`: https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/master/faq.md#overriding-the-underlying-default-ignore-rules