How to run nodejs app as service with forever or upstart?

Question

I am running my app as below

NODE_ENV=production node_modules/.bin/babel-node --presets 'react,es2015' src/server.js

How to run it as service with forever or upstart?

Answer 1

I suggest you to use PM2 as a process manager.

by the way, with forever you should create a forever.[environment].json that forever uses as a configuration file:

 [ { // App2 "uid": "app2", "append": true, "watch": true, "script": "index.js", "sourceDir": "/home/myuser/app2", "args": ["--port", "8081"] // CLI ARGS HERE } ]