Node Daemon Manager

Helps managing Node-based (not only) services with things like Monit, etc.

Install: npm i -g nodaemon

Usage:

nodaemon <command> <path> [name [pidfile [args [logs [log [error-log]]]]]] [options]

Commands:

• start
• stop
• restart

Options:

• -p or --path: Path to the script file or folder with index.js
• -n or --name: Name of the daemon (default: the name of the script's parent folder)
• -i or --pid: Path to the pid file (default: /tmp/nodaemon-%name%.pid)
• -a or --args: Arguments string to pass to the process (default: empty)
• -l or --logs: Path to the logs dir (default: /tmp/)
• --log: Path to the log file (default: /tmp/nodaemon-%name%.log)
• --error-log: Path to the error log file (default: the same as --log)
• --npm: Use npm run daemon command instead of node %path%. In this case %path% should be a directory with package.json file. You can customize the command this way --npm my-custom-command, then it will be launched like that: npm run my-custom-command. Also, you have to add & echo $! > $PIDFILE into the end of npm script command in the package.json file.

Examples:

nodaemon start ./my-fancy-service

The same, but with explicit parameters:

nodaemon start \
  -p ./my-fancy-service/index.js \
  -n my-fancy-service \
  -i /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.pid \
  --log /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.log \
  --error-log /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.log

The same, but without argument names:

nodaemon start \
  ./my-fancy-service/index.js \
  my-fancy-service \
  /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.pid \
  '' \
  '' \
  /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.log \
  /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.log

The same, but using npm run daemon:

nodaemon start ./my-fancy-service --npm

Stopping:

nodaemon stop ./my-fancy-service

It will try to find the pid file /tmp/nodaemon-my-fancy-service.pid, read the pid and terminate the process.

And here's a freaky version with some total mess as arguments:

nodaemon start \
  /some/dir/inside/a/dir/script.js \
  -n very-unique-name-which-is-not-going-to-be-used-anyway \
  --pid /tmp/the-pid-of-the-service.pid \
  -l /the/path/that/is/not/going/to/be/used/because/of/the/next/two/lines
  --log /var/log/my-uber-service.log \
  --error-log /dev/null

Note that in order to stop or restart that messy service you have to provide the pid path:

nodaemon stop the-name-that-does-not-matter -i /tmp/the-pid-of-the-service.pid

Hint: use --logs (or -l) parameter if you want to specify the logs dir but leave the log files' names to be generated automatically based on the service name.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018

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