Windows: Auto start PM2 and node apps

Question

At a Windows AWS server i have a NODE app and i\'m using PM2 to launch the app

I have tried the NPMs: \"pm2-windows-startup\" and \"pm2-windows-service\"

But aft

Answer 1

I found this tutorial very useful: https://blog.cloudboost.io/nodejs-pm2-startup-on-windows-db0906328d75

the first approach using 'nssm' and a .bat file not worked for me, so I followed approach 2: "Solution2: Using pm2-windows-service"

However, as mentioned in other answers, the pm2-windows-service has a bug, which this fork solved: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@innomizetech/pm2-windows-service

so instead of the old package:

npm install -g pm2-windows-service

use the new one:

npm install -g @innomizetech/pm2-windows-service

here a short summary of the tutorial:

Configure pm2

1. npm i -g pm2
2. copy C:\Users\USER\.pm2 to C:\etc\.pm2
3. set a new System Variable (not user level) name: PM2_HOME value: c:\etc\.pm2

Runnning your app with pm2

4. run your pm2 app. ie: pm2 start app.js --name=MY_API .
5. pm2 save to create a dump of the current apps running.

Testing app

6. to test everything is working, try: pm2 kill and then pm2 resurrect (app should be running, check with pm2 status )

Run at startup

now we need to perform the resurrect command at startup, so:

7. npm install -g @innomizetech/pm2-windows-service
8. pm2-service-install -n PM2 --unattended

thats it.