Nodemon.io
Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development (by remy)
Phusion Passenger
A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js (by phusion)

Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Nodemon.io
Posts with mentions or reviews of Nodemon.io.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-21.
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3 Node.js Features You Didn’t Know About
I’m sure you’ve used different tools to watch your source files and restart the application when you change your code. We’ve done this in various ways, one of which is using nodemon, a utility that monitors changes in your source files and automatically restarts the server.
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Front-End to Full-Stack Journey Part 3: Server Proxies, React and Progress
I installed Nodemon to help here. For those who don't know already, Nodemon is a tool that helps by restarting the Node application everytime a change has been made to the code. This proved to be quite helpful as the trial & error was about to begin.
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CRUD with ExpressJS and MongoDB (Typescript)
Nodemon is a dependency that monitors your project files for changes and automatically restarts the server once there is a change to any file being watched by nodemon. Think of nodemon as node monitor ;). Note: You shouldn't use nodemon on a production server, except you're part of the developers that attempt fix bug in production, lol.
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Build Your Own nodemon in Few Lines of Code
nodemon
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Build a Real-time Notification System with Socket.IO and ReactJS
nodemon - automatically restarts our Node.js server whenever we make changes to the codebase
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Node.js built-in alternative to nodemon
The nodemon is a popular library for running and restarting Node.js processes on file changes. All LTS Node.js support an option --watch-path, which allows to replace nodemon:
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How to Build an Application With Node.js
Or you can install nodemon for the same purpose. nodemon detects changes in the directory and restarts your application.
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Using pm2 to Manage Node.js Applications
When I first encountered Node.js and also learned how to use Linux, nodemon was a library that I often used to develop applications, as it would automatically "reload" the new code upon saving without needing to manually "kill" and restart the application, a feature now commonly referred to as "hot reload."
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How 'npm create vue@latest' works
But what is a symbolic link exactly? It comes from programming and I often liken symbolic links to basic redirects but with greater stability. However, not every package needs a place in .bin. Packages like nodemon, webpack, gulp, eslint and create-vue are found in .bin because they need to be executed. On the other hand, packages like animate.css, swiper and express operate at the application layer, so you won't find them in .bin after installation. How does npm determine whether a package is executable or not? It's simple: by using the bin property in your package.json to specify the executable path. If your package is executable, you can set it accordingly. Let's take a look at prettier's package.json file
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What's New in Node.js 22
With the release of Node.js 22, this feature has been stabilized, so this warning no longer appears. While you could previously use a third-party tool like nodemon, this update removes the need for a dependency by adding it directly to Node.js core.
Phusion Passenger
Posts with mentions or reviews of Phusion Passenger.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-26.
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story of upgrading rails 5.x to 7.x
We split the staging server into two instances using Ubuntu 22.04 as the base image. The first instance is for a web server with nginx, passenger and MySQL. The second instance is for the support server and this is where we install redis, memcache, mongodb and resque.
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Has something changed in Passenger with the new version?
Secondly, there is, of course, a bug with Passenger and /var/run/passenger-instreg (I can be found in that thread whining). My preferred fix for this is
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Part 3 — Adding Git, Passenger and Nginx
While there is a debate on which ones are the best, we will be using Passenger and Nginx, since they are both fast and reliable. You may wish to do your own research and see which one works for you.
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How To Deploy a Rails App With Passenger and Nginx On Digital Ocean Part 1 — Creating SSH
In this tutorial we will be deploying a Rails app with Passenger, as the application server, and Nginx, as the web server. Also, the Rails app will use Postgres, so we will be installing that as well.
- Passenger: Enterprise grade web app server for Ruby, Node.js, Python
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I'm having trouble understanding what Rack does. Could you explain-like-I-am-a-beginner? with real examples if possible please.
Here's Puma's implementation, and Here's Passenger's implementation.
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Rails 7 new production install: from zero to deploy (Ubuntu 20.04 edition)
server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name YOUR_DOMAIN.ORG; # If you deploy without DNS and SSL, you could leave servername blank like below # server_name _; root /home/deploy/APPNAME/current/public; passenger_enabled on; passenger_app_env production; passenger_env_var RUBYOPT '-r bundler/setup'; # Cf issue: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2409 # Uncomment if you use ActionCable and/or Turbo Streams # location /cable { # passenger_app_group_name APPNAME_websocket; # passenger_force_max_concurrent_requests_per_process 0; # } # Allow uploads up to 100MB in size client_max_body_size 100m; location ~ ^/assets { expires max; gzip_static on; } }
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Passenger 介紹
> passenger start =============== Phusion Passenger Standalone web server started =============== PID file: /home/leon/Git/MasoniteDemo1/passenger.3000.pid Log file: /home/leon/Git/MasoniteDemo1/passenger.3000.log Environment: development Accessible via: http://0.0.0.0:3000/ You can stop Phusion Passenger Standalone by pressing Ctrl-C. Problems? Check https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/admin/standalone/troubleshooting/ ===============================================================================
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5 Basic Things you need to know about managing a Linux server
PHP is great, but not for all of us. What about running Node.js or Python apps? You might be tempted to use proxy_pass but it won't handle the app startup and crashes for us. Luckily we have a better option: Phusion Passenger.
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Guide on How to Deploy Rails API app
I have been following all day guides on https://www.phusionpassenger.com/ on how to deploy Rails apps with Apache and Passenger.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Nodemon.io and Phusion Passenger you can also consider the following projects:
PM2 - Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.
supervisor
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)
Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server
chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)
naught - Zero downtime deployment for your Node.js server using builtin cluster API
Iodine - iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support

Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
www.nutrient.io
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