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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from   Node.js Web Development Server-side web development made easy with Node 14 using practical examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987572
Length 760 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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David Herron David Herron
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Node.js
2. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Node.js 4. Exploring Node.js Modules 5. HTTP Servers and Clients 6. Section 2: Developing the Express Application
7. Your First Express Application 8. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 9. Data Storage and Retrieval 10. Authenticating Users with a Microservice 11. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO 12. Section 3: Deployment
13. Deploying Node.js Applications to Linux Servers 14. Deploying Node.js Microservices with Docker 15. Deploying a Docker Swarm to AWS EC2 with Terraform 16. Unit Testing and Functional Testing 17. Security in Node.js Applications 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up PM2 to manage Node.js processes

We have two servers, svc-notes and svc-userauth, configured so we can run the two services making up the Notes application stack. A big task remaining is to ensure the Node.js processes are properly installed as background processes.

To see the problem, start another command window and run these commands:

$ multipass restart svc-userauth
$ multipass restart svc-notes

The server instances were running under Multipass, and the restart command caused the named instance to stop and then start. This emulates a server reboot. Since both were running in the foreground, you'll see each command window exit to the host command shell, and running multipass list again will show both instances in the Running state. The big takeaway is that both services are no longer running.

There are many ways to manage server processes, to ensure restarts if the process crashes, and so on. We'll use PM2 (http://pm2.keymetrics.io/) because it's optimized for...

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