webpack-dev-middleware VS PM2

Are you using webpack? If so, they have a middleware for exactly this case: https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-middleware. The example there should be added to your express script with some form of conditional statement to use express.static in your deployment and webpack-dev-middleware in dev.

It looks like this should have been fixed back in 2017: https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-middleware/issues/229

Meteor-Webpack integrates webpack-dev-middleware and webpack-hot-middleware to benefit HMR in your project. The only thing you have to do is enabling this feature just like any other Webpack project;

Start by registering the app using the official guide.

Run the application using PM2 (ref: Process manager for Node.js)

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.

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.

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

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2 I found this package. It looks good and solves my problem, I think.