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I am looking to daemonize my Node.js application. What's the difference between upstart and forever? Also, are there other packages I might want to considering looking at?
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Forever is an npm module that ensures a Node. js script continuously runs in the background on the server. It's a helpful CLI tool for the production environment because it helps manage the Node applications and their processes.
Avoid Using Node.js: Processing CPU heavy and complex applications: Node. js uses an event-based, non-blocking I/O architecture and only has one CPU – all of that intensive CPU processing would block incoming requests. As a result of the high-end number crunching, the thread might get stuck.
js, introduced back in 2009, is not one of these. Node. js development has become very popular over the last four years and continues to stand the competition in 2022 making startups worldwide choose it over other available options.
Node. js has the best tools for the development of various applications and it's highly popular among software developers. Nevertheless, like any other development platform Node.
As pointed out in the comments, upstart will be used to start the forever script, since upstart has hooks for system events (like shutdown and startup of your server).
The other differences are:
Among the available other solutions, you can try daemon, which is equivalent to forever.
I would disagree with @leorex with regards to upstart setup. Check out this blog post for an excellent example.
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