pm2 start server.js --name api

Category: Web App Development

pm2 start server.js --name api

Run a Node server as a managed daemon

Starts server.js as a background process named api, restarted automatically if it crashes and saved across reboots with pm2 save. PM2 is a process manager aimed at Node services. Watch logs with pm2 logs api.
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