I have a sailsjs app on AWS EC2, which I have been running till now using forever. I have two adantages using forever:
1) Perpetuality: I can use the CLI forever start app.js or forever restart app.js and then app starts running and keeps on running till I stop it with the command forever stop app.js. So, the app does not stop even when I close my terminal. The process keeps on running.
2) Runtime Log: I have a .forever directory that has a log file, while on real time records the server logs, and when I check the log using tail -f file_name.log, I get to see run time logs.
However there is a disadvantage: Every time I upload a new/modified server file, I have to restart the app manually. To get rid of this, I am switching from forever to nodemon.
From the documentation provided by Nodemon, I cant figure out how can I replicate the two advantages, as mentioned above, from Nodemon too. Will be a great help if anyone can guide me on how to start my nodejs app using nodemon so that it can keep running even after closing the terminal on my side, and how to watch runtime log of server.
Just my two cents.
I use nodemon daily while developing and I dont think its something you want to use in place of something like forever. Nodemon is used when developing, the software will detect when there has been a file change and restart the server but for deployment it should not be considered.
There is no need to change either because forever has this use case handled with the --w or --watchDirectory comand that will watch for file changes(It can be found here on their readme).