How can I restart a Node.js app from within itself (programmatically)?

Question

How can I create an app that can restart itself? I want to create an app that sets up a web-admin which can restart itself. Is this possible? If so, how? I was thinking this

Answer 1

1. you can run your app using child process and manipulate it how needed: https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html

2. use forever, pm2 or whatever thing to restart after death and kill itself with process.exit() https://nodejs.org/api/process.html