Run the script in the background using npm forever cmd

Installing forever

npm i -g forever

Running a script with forever

forever start app.js

After you start the script, you can list all the running processes.

forever list

Some other useful forever commands:

forever start: starts a script as a daemon
forever stop: stops the daemon script by Id|Uid|Pid|Index|Script
forever stopall: stops all running scripts
forever restart: restarts the daemon script
forever restartall: restarts all running forever scripts
forever cleanlogs: deletes all historical forever log files
forever config: lists all forever user configurations
forever set : defines a forever config value for an unique key
forever clear : clears the specified forever config by its key

Run your customize script

• Navigate your file:eg /var/www/frontend
• Where package.json is available

forever start -c "npm run dev" ./