PM2 is a process manager for the JavaScript runtime Node.js

PM2 is similar to systemctl if you are familiar with linux system, this tutorial is for ubuntu.

To install , please run

yarn global add pm2

if you do not have yarn, run

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

Run PM2 in dev mode

pm2-dev start app.js

Run PM2 in production

pm2 start app.js

Manage Node app with name sample_app using PM2 as process.

pm2 start yarn --name "sample_app" --interpreter bash -- start
pm2 show sample_app

Restart sample_app

pm2 restart sample_app

Stop sample_app

pm2 stop sample_app

Delete sample_app

pm2 delete sample_app

Run pm2 on startup

pm2 startup

PM2 real time monitoring

pm2 monit

list apps managed by PM2

pm2 list

https://nodejs.org/en/docs