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I was creating a node.js project and uploaded it to my Windows server to provide an API service for mobile application.
When I open command prompt and type
node app.js
It runs correctly, but when I close the command prompt my node.js server stopped running.
How to make it still running when I close the commend prompt?
For example on Ubuntu I use the command
nohup
How can I do this on Windows?
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The usual way to run a Node. js program is to run the globally available node command (once you install Node. js) and pass the name of the file you want to execute. While running the command, make sure you are in the same directory which contains the app.
var Service = require('node-windows'). Service; // Create a new service object var svc = new Service({ name:'Hello World', description: 'The nodejs.org example web server. ', script: 'C:\\path\\to\\helloworld. js' }); // Listen for the "install" event, which indicates the // process is available as a service.
js application locally after closing the terminal or Application, to run the nodeJS application permanently. We use NPM modules such as forever or PM2 to ensure that a given script runs continuously. NPM is a Default Package manager for Node.
You can make the process run in background using pm2
pm2 start app.js --watch
This will start the process and will also look for changes in the file. More about watch flag
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Nodemon #ftw. On Windows, Forever doesn't really watch files so much as casually observe them, while pm2 restarts the server every time you load a page.
Each of these tools works similarly, and each installs just as in the accepted answer. E.g.:
npm install nodemon -g
This installs nodemon globally, and to use you can simply navigate to your project folder and enter:
nodemon
(Assuming your project has an app.js file). You can add the -w switch, just as in Forever and pm2, however if you're just wanting to watch all files, you can omit that. To run nodemon in the background with Forever, you would run this:
forever nodemon --exitcrash
Nodemon is good for development, especially on Windows, while Forever and pm2 are more for production, on Linux.
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