Running A Production Node App
Running a node app in production#
Usually you can run your app in dev mode with:
node app.js
In production however you want to use Nginx to serve static files and a process manager to handle serving your app
Install pm2
sudo npm install -g pm2
Start the app with pm2 (can use -i max for cluster mode)
pm2 start app.js
This will start your app in the background
Now make a systemd entry for the app with:
pm2 startup systemd
Ensure to run the result of the above command
then:
pm2 save
Now stop the manual process:
pm2 kill
and start the systemd file:
sudo systemctl start pm2-<user>
Also set up the nginx reverse proxy for the port your app is running on from the link below