Hi *,
thought I'd share the following:
https://gist.github.com/rauhs/6cc3a59de01d907bcadac95a908a9b83
It's a simple Makefile that will auto reload your nginx server when you save the config file in your editor. It's pretty handy for development.
It also creates an on screen notification (Ubunut only I believe) if you have an [emerg] kind of error.
Hope this helps some folks,
Cheers