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PM2 lets you run your nodejs scripts forever. In the event that your application crashes, PM2 will also restart it for you. Install PM2 globally to manager your nodejs instances npm install pm2 -g Navigate to the directory in which your nodejs script resides and run the following command each t...

To start the process: $ forever start index.js warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms info: Forever processing file: index.js List running Forever instances: $ forever list i...

An alternative to forever on Linux is nohup. To start a nohup instance cd to the location of app.js or wwwfolder run nohup nodejs app.js & To kill the process run ps -ef|grep nodejs kill -9 <the process number>

Installation npm install forever -g cd /node/project/directory Usages forever start app.js