Run node.js application in the background as service easily

Simplest way I found is too install the node.js application named "forever"

Just install forever in your server like:

sudo npm install -g forever

Then you can run your application as service like (inside your actual node application):

forever start bot.js

To kill the service:

Show the forver process list:

forver list

Will return something like this:

info:    Forever processes running
data:        uid  command                                  script forever pid   id logfile                 uptime                   
data:    [0] 1RSg /root/.nvm/versions/node/v9.5.0/bin/node bot.js 20554   20560    /root/.forever/1RSg.log 0:0:10:44.34400000000005 

Then get the forever id which is from the sample above is [0] and stop the process like this:

forever stop 0