How to run node.js app forever when console is closed?

Question

I connect to my remote server via ssh. Then I start my node.js app with Forever. Everything works fine until I close my console window. How to run node.js app FOREVER on my

Answer 1

I would definitely recommend pm2
npm install -g pm2

To start server: pm2 start [yourServerFile.js]
To stop server: pm2 stop [yourServerFile.js]

Close client and server will run forever....will also restart if app crashes.
Ive been running a node server on Ubuntu for months with zero issues

Answer 2

You could install forever using npm like this:

  sudo npm install -g forever

Or as a service:

 forever start server.js

Or stop service

forever stop server.js

To list all running processes:

forever list

Answer 3

node expamle.js & for example

Answer 4

my start.sh file:

#/bin/bash

nohup forever -c php artisan your:command >>storage/logs/yourcommand.log 2>&1 &

There is one important thing only. FIRST COMMAND MUST BE "nohup", second command must be "forever" and "-c" parameter is forever's param, "2>&1 &" area is for "nohup". After running this line then you can logout from your terminal, relogin and run "forever restartall" voilaa... You can restart and you can be sure that if script halts then forever will restart it.

I <3 forever

Answer 5

I had similar issue and I think using forever will help to handle crashed and restarts

You can install forever globally: sudo nom install -g forever

And run this command:

nohup forever server.js &

This should handle all the trouble of closing the terminal, closing ssh session, node crashes and restarts.

Answer 6

In Linux, SSH into your remote server and run

screen

to launch into a new screen.

Finally, type ctrlad to detach the screen session without killing the process.

More info here.