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Eric Sheasby
Eric Sheasby

Reputation: 235

Forever Node.JS Express 4

How do you run the Express 4 app with Forever? (or is there a new package?)

I am running my Express 3 apps with Forever installed locally with the package manager. I use the command:

forever -a start app.js

Upvotes: 18

Views: 20090

Answers (6)

Manohar Reddy Poreddy
Manohar Reddy Poreddy

Reputation: 27395

Feb 2021

This solution is for express.js & forever, on Windows OS.

package.json

"scripts": {
  "start": "set PORT=3001 && set DEBUG=myapp:* && forever start --minUptime 1000 --spinSleepTime 1000 ./bin/www",
}

Now run:

npm start

NOTE: For other OS, and customization see following link: https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

Upvotes: 0

Apoorv Kesharwani
Apoorv Kesharwani

Reputation: 377

If you use npm start to run your app, this works in place of it:

forever start -c "npm start" /path/to/app/dir/

Source: https://github.com/foreverjs/forever/issues/540

Upvotes: 2

Jie
Jie

Reputation: 317

Try node app.js first, for me, I added a new module in code base, but i did not run npm install in my AWS box, forever is not giving you the error, it just stopped silently, but node will give you the error

Upvotes: 1

user3623945
user3623945

Reputation: 161

forever start --minUptime 1000 --spinSleepTime 1000 ./bin/www

Upvotes: 14

Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 815

Try this:

forever start ./bin/www

Let's take a look to package.json:

"scripts": {
    "start": "node ./bin/www"
},

I guess when we call npm start, ./bin/www will be executed at some point. Then look at the content of./bin/www:

var server = app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
  debug('Express server listening on port ' + server.address().port);
});

so we are ready to listen for connections.

Upvotes: 24

pineoc
pineoc

Reputation: 17

http://expressjs.com/guide.html

in Expressjs guide doc,

use 'npm start'

I want use 'forever' but can not too

so,

add code at 'app.js'

var server = app.listen(3000, function() { console.log('Listening on port %d', server.address().port); });

and

$node app.js

can use it.

and forever can use too

Upvotes: 0

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