How can I automatically start a node.js application in Amazon Linux AMI on aws?

Question

Is there a brief guide to explain how to start up a application when the instance starts up and running? If it were one of the services installed through yum th

Answer 1

You can use screen. Run crontab -e and add this line:

@reboot  screen -d -m bash -c "cd /home/user/yourapp/; node app"