Node.js Process Manager

Simple Node Process Manager with graceful shutdown. This tool will automatically restart processes when they exit unexpectedly.

Installation

npm install node-process-manager

Usage

example-webserver.js

var http = require('http');
var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
});
...
server.listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');

// Graceful Shutdown. Close connections, etc...
process.on("SIGTERM", function() {
	server.close();
	...
	process.exit();
});

manager.js

var Manager = require("node-process-manager");

var process1 = new Manager("/path/to/express/example-webserver.js"),
	process2 = new Manager("/path/to/express/example-webserver2.js", {
		name: "My Webserver", 
		environmentVar: "The child process can access this variable via process.env.environmentVar"
	});

// Restart a process.
process2.respawn();

// Kill a Process
process1.kill();

Starting the process manager

nohup node manager.js > "/var/log/node.log" &

See test/childSpec for more detailed usage.

Test

npm install mocha -g
mocha