How to run strapi in the background?

Question

I am able to deploy my strapi project to a remote server. How it works? - I connect via the console to the remote nginx server, go to the root of the project and write npm run develop, but unfortunately, if I close the terminal (through which I connected to the remote server), the project will close, and I need it to work 24/7.

Question: How to do it?

PS: I could attach nginx configurations here, but I don't know if they are needed.

Answer 1

the easiest way of doing this is thru pm2:

in root of your project add file strapi.js with following config: /strapi.js

const strapi = require('@strapi/strapi');
strapi().start();

connect to the server via ssh, let's assume that your strapi project is located in /var/www/strapi

so

yarn global add pm2 
OR
npm install pm2@latest -g

cd /var/www/strapi
pm2 start strapi.js

After the process is created you can do:

pm2 stop strapi    // stops server
pm2 start strapi   // starts server
pm2 monit strapi   // monitor server
pm2 list           // lists pm2 processes

you can reference docs