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How to pass node v8 args and script args to pm2?

I need to be able to start the app below with pm2 but don't know how to start it with pm2.

node --expose-gc bin/www arg1 arg2 arg3

I know about --node-args but I think is only for --expose-gc.

Solution

  • After some digging, I've found out that what I was looking for was the double dash on linux.

    The normal code,

    node --expose-gc bin/www arg1 arg2 arg3

    The same code using pm2

    pm2 start bin/www --node-args="--expose-gc" -- arg1 arg2 arg3

    All v8 arguments you have to put inside --node-args and all scrips args to be grabbed from process.argv you have to put after the double dash.

    I hope that in the future they implement something link --script-args="arg1 arg2 arg3". Would be very nice for those that isn't a linux expert.