systemdify

Automatically create a systemd unit file for your Node application based on package.json

Install

npm install --save systemdify

or to use the CLI

npm install -g systemdify

Node API

var systemdify = require('systemdify')

var file = initdify({
	command: 'node ./server.js',
	description: 'My Awesome Application'
})

Will return the following:

[Unit]
Description=My Awesome Application
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node /path/to/my/app/server.js
Restart=always
Environment=NODE_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

CLI

Usage
  $ systemdify <folder>

Options
  -o, --output Write output to file

Examples
  $ systemdify /path/to/my/app -o my-app.service
  $ cat my-app.service

  [Unit]
  description=My Application
  ...

NPM Hooks

The recommended way to use to module is to add it to your dev dependencies and execute the package after you've done an NPM install.

...
scripts: {
  "install": "sudo ./node_modules/.bin/systemdify"
}
...