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Reputation: 919

How to run React Boilerplate with forever

I'm going to run react-boilerplate application forever in the server. I found forever and I'm not sure how I pass parameters to forever. The command to run server is like following:

PORT=80 npm run start:production

Seems like forever start PORT=80 npm run start:production doesn't help me.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9927

Answers (4)

Lahiru Amarathunge
Lahiru Amarathunge

Reputation: 819

For this you will need:

  1. Install forever usingnpm install -g forever
  2. Run the forever command PORT=<YOUR PORT> forever start -c "<command>" ./

Your command can be for example npm start and npm run dev.

Use ./ only if you are in the project folder.

Port means your port number, usually 80 or 443.

Upvotes: 0

Kevin Ogoro
Kevin Ogoro

Reputation: 457

pm2 is superb production process manager for Node. In addition to starting and daemonizing any application, it has a built in load balancer.

Install pm2:

npm install pm2 -g

To add start and add deamon to your app, navigate to the app folder and:

pm2 start app.js

To make pm2 autoboot on server restart:

$ pm2 startup

Then copy and paste the code generated.

Upvotes: 0

noone
noone

Reputation: 6568

Or you can run a react application with pm2 or with nohup

1) install pm2 globally

npm install pm2 -g

2) navigate to the project folder and execute, space is required after --

pm2 start npm -- start

3) to see running instances

pm2 ps

4) to see the other options 

pm2 --help

To run with nohup

1) navigate to the project folder 

nohup bash -c 'npm start' &

Upvotes: 5

Gleb Kostyunin
Gleb Kostyunin

Reputation: 3873

One thing is that PORT=80 part is setting the env variable, this kind of command should be in front of other commands. The other thing is that to run npm scripts with forever, you need to use different syntax, so PORT=80 forever start -c "npm run start:production" /path/to/app/dir/.

If you're running forever form the project folder, the path should be ./

Upvotes: 5

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