Strapi how to start in background? - strapi

Question

Usually we use "strapi start" to start strapi.
I'm hosting it on AWS ubuntu:
tried "start strapi &" to run it in background. However, once the terminal is closed, we can't access the strapi console anymore.

Answer 1

I got script not found: server.js error when using #user1872384's solution.
So, here is the correct way to run strapi in background mode.
NODE_ENV=production pm2 start --name APP_NAME npm -- start
This will just tell pm2 to use npm start command and let npm do the which script to run part.
Hope it helps someone.

Answer 2

To run the strapi in development mode, use the following pm2 command from your project folder.
pm2 start npm --name my-project -- run develop
and
pm2 list
to view the status

Answer 3

We also can start with pm2 by type
pm2 start "yarn develop"

Answer 4

Need to use pm2:
To Start:
npm install pm2 -g
NODE_ENV=production pm2 start server.js --name api
To list all process:
pm2 list
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬────────────┬────────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼────────────┼────────┼──────────┤
│ api │ 0 │ 0.1.0 │ fork │ 21817 │ online │ 0 │ 2m │ 0% │ 108.0 MB │ ubuntu │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴────────────┴────────┴──────────┘
To Stop, use the id:
pm2 stop 0

Answer 5

First
npm install pm2 -g
add server.js to root of your project and write below line:
const strapi = require('strapi');
strapi().start();
save then
pm2 start server.js

Answer 6

The best way is to use pm2 and its ecosystem.config.js file.
Firstly, install pm2 by:
npm i -g pm2#latest
In ecosystem.config.js, add the following code:
module.exports = {
apps: [
{
name: 'give-your-app-a-name',
script: 'npm',
args: 'start',
watch: true, // automatically restart the server for file changes
max_memory_restart: '450M',
env: {
NODE_ENV: 'production',
},
},
{
name: 'give-your-another-app-a-name',
script: 'npm',
args: 'start',
env: {
NODE_ENV: 'production',
},
},
],
}
Finally on your server do:
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js
That's it.

Answer 7

Here's the official page about starting Strapi with PM2.
Starting with strapi command
By default there is two important commands.
yarn develop to start your project in development mode.
yarn start to start your app for production.
You can also start your process manager using the yarn start or develop command.
pm2 start npm --name my-app -- run develop

Answer 8

pm2 start npm --name my-app -- run develop