How does one start a node.js server as a daemon process?

Question

In Python Twisted, you have the twistd command that helps you with a number of things related to running your application (daemonize it for example).

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Answer 1

You can try:

$ nohup node server.js &

It work for me on Mac and Linux.

The output will be in the ./nohup.out file

But I still recommend you use pm2 or forever, because they are easily used for restarting, stopping and logging.