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nodejs forever: start application

I am running my web app with npm start but now I need to deploy it to Digital Ocean which means that I'll have to use forever to start my app and I can't figure this out...

I tried to run it as forever npm start but it returns:

error: Cannot start forever
error: script /root/saleseng/OP Apps Platform/server/npm does not exist.

This is my scrips object from package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "nodemon --watch src --exec babel-node -- src/index.js",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  }
Solution

  • You will need to pass the name of .js file to forever:

    forever start src/index.js

    This will start the script with forever. It could be monitored with 

    forever logs scriptId -f

    forever list will fetch you the scriptId

    UPDATE:

    Transpiling to ES5:

    To use babel have the following dependencies installed:

     "dependencies": {
    "babel": "^6.23.0",
    "babel-cli": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-core": "^6.25.0",
    "babel-polyfill": "^6.23.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.24.1",
}

    Then create a .babelrc in the root of your project having the following:

        {
       "presets": ["es2015","stage-0"]
    }

    Now to finally do a transpile, run:

    babel myInputDirectory --out-dir myOutputDirectory