PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer. (by Unitech)
Nodemon.io
Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development (by remy)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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.
PM2
Posts with mentions or reviews of PM2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-07.
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AI for Web Devs: Deploying Your AI App to Production
There are plenty of ways to accomplish this: Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumis, etc., but I don’t like to add too much complexity. So for a basic app, I like to use PM2, a Node.js process manager with great features, including the ability to run our app in the background.
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How to get the count of your followers on dev.to
This project will consist of a single "index.js" file that you can deploy anywhere. I recommend using an Nginx reverse proxy and pm2 to keep the service running.
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A Guide To Self-Hosting Web Apps On Ubuntu Servers
Your app should be running now. To be able to run the app in the background, I will use pm2. Stop your application using "Ctrl + C" and install pm2
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7 Tips to Build Scalable Node.js Applications
Additionally, it provides many more features to manage and visualize the processes. More details on PM2 can be found in their official documentation.
You can create child processes that run concurrently with the application sharing the same port, which helps scale the application within the same server. Clusters can be implemented using the built-in cluster module of Node.js or a library like PM2, widely used in production applications.
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Serving react statically with express
Lastly if you want to run your dev build tool and backend as a single command you could try something like pm2 (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2) or concurrently (https://www.npmjs.com/package/concurrently). This isn't necessary but might be a nice-to-have. NPM workspaces could help you organize this with a common package.json file too. (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/using-npm/workspaces)
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Building a Pseudo Multi-Tenant App in Strapi: Step-by-Step
For more documentation on pm2, you can read from here
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Host SvelteKit apps with SSR-support via ploi.io (on Hetzner Cloud)
"PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks." (pm2)
See pm2 quickstart docs for more information.
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 2024-03-23.
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Full Stack Web Development Concept map
nodemon - enables automatic reload of your server after code change docs
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Devlog Week 3: 4 - 10 December 2023
Then, install nodemon (in the VSCode terminal also), which, to my understanding, automatically refreshes the server you'll be sending requests to, whenever you make a change. Using plain node.js, you'd have to manually stop and restart the server after every change.
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Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes 👋
That's already pretty good, but as you already know it's a PITA to work with this during development. You will have to rebuild your Docker images whenever you change your code, even though your apps will probably support hot-reloading out of the box (or with something like Nodemon if not).
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Set up Hot Reload for Typescript ESM projects
Are you moving your projects to use ES Modules but you are facing some unexpected issues? You are not alone in this fight. In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up nodemon along with ts-node.
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Building a React/Express Stripe Donation Form
We can now use npm run dev to start the server using nodemon, which enables hot refreshing on changes.
- Nodemon not watching for file changes
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Setting Up Recurring Charges with the Rapyd Collect API
You’ll need to restart the server using node index.js whenever you change any project file. You can also use Nodemon to automate this.
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Add payments feature in your application using Node.js/Express and Stripe
nodemon will be required to monitor for any changes in our source code and automatically restart our server.
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How does nodemon works under the hood?
Using Chokidar to watch for the file changes - https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/main/lib/monitor/watch.js
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PM2 and Nodemon.io you can also consider the following projects:
forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)
supervisor
Phusion Passenger - A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)
naught - Zero downtime deployment for your Node.js server using builtin cluster API
node-windows - Windows support for Node.JS scripts (daemons, eventlog, UAC, etc).
God - Ruby process monitor
chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
node-clinic - Clinic.js diagnoses your Node.js performance issues