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Running a NodeJS app automaticaly at the start up

I have a little NodeJS app that accesses to a MongoDB database and takes some data in order to be displayed in an index.html file. I run it on an Ubuntu Mate 18.04.2 OS on a Raspberry Pi B+

I run the NodeJS app with the line:

node /routeofmyapp/index.js

Then the server starts up and I can go to the index.html file and check the displayed data.

The next thing I want to do in the project is executed automatically the index.js at the start-up of the system without having to launch the console terminal.

How can I do it?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Edit sudo nano /home/pi/.bashrc file.

    Go to the last line of the script and add:

    echo Running at boot 
sudo node /routeofmyapp/index.js

    Then save and reboot RPi:

    sudo reboot