Today, I will be documenting my experience on how I set up a server that can serve my NodeJS applications. This server will auto-start once the machine restarted.
This guide is for Ubuntu Server.
- Download and Install NodeJS
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_x.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
- Install PM2 globally
npm install pm2 -g
- Go to your application directory and start your NodeJS app using pm2. In my case my folder is in /var/www/api and the name of my startup file is app.js
cd /var/www/api pm2 start app.js
- You can check all running apps under pm2 by executing the command below
pm2 list
- Now, we will make sure that our app will auto start if ever the server machine is restarted. So, we will execute this command below
pm2 startup pm2 save
- And that’s it! Pancit 😀
