autoquit

Automatically quit node.js servers when inactive.

Detects when a server has been inactive for a period of time and shuts it down.

Designed to be used in combination with something like node-systemd: https://github.com/rubenv/node-systemd

More info on why you'd want to use this module: http://savanne.be/articles/deploying-node-js-with-systemd/

Usage

You can install the latest version via npm:

$ npm install autoquit

Require the autoquit module. It will monkey-patch the support for auto-quitting into net.Server.

require('autoquit');

Create an app as usual and call the autoQuit method. Do this before calling listen to avoid inconsistencies in the connection counting.

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

Do a request to your service:

# curl -i http://localhost:1337/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Hello World

After 10 minutes of inactivity (the default), it will close the server.

Specifying options

You can pass options as an object to the autoQuit call:

server.autoQuit({ timeOut: 900 });

Accepted options:

• timeOut: number of seconds of inactivity before triggering the shutdown method.
• exitFn: A function that will be invoked when shutting down. If this is not supplied, the default action is to invoke process.exit(0);.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (C) 2011-2014 by Ruben Vermeersch <[email protected]>

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