Running node applications until stopped

Using PM2

You can use PM2, it’s a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer.

Install PM2

$ npm install pm2 -g

Start an application

$ pm2 start app.js

If you using express then you can start your app like

pm2 start ./bin/www --name="app"

Listing all running processes:

$ pm2 list

It will list all process. You can then stop / restart your service by using ID or Name of the app with following command.

$ pm2 stop all $ pm2 stop 0
$ pm2 restart all

To display logs

$ pm2 logs ['all'|app_name|app_id]