pm2

I've seen this crop up a few times recently and a vocal minority seems to panic every time. I ran into it the other day installing pm2 w/ npm which downloads an optional package that they use for analytics https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/blob/master/package.json#L184 Is the problem that they are using google's service? Is it the tracking that people don't like? Is it the messaging/copy to the users? I'm sure there's plenty of people on hacker news that build analytics software for a living. I've worked on email click and open tracking. Doesn't seem terrible if it helps them build their product.

That's quite a funny project. I setup this thing and just draw a code viz for https://github.com/Unitech/PM2, that looks pretty cool: http://i.imgur.com/gvm0fxs.png

Tbh, I thought this was about https://github.com/Unitech/pm2 . I was pretty confused.

A nice little dash. Surprisingly, I found the most valuable part of it is honestly just splitting stdout/stderr, as the rest of the data is relatively easy to access (except event loop lag, but there are packages like toobusy[https://www.npmjs.com/package/toobusy-js] to help with this). It doesn't work in combination with nodemon or babel-watch (yet), but the code looks very clean & simple so I assume it'll be an easy update. If you're looking for more granular reporting & monitoring I can heartily recommend pm2's web dashes [https://github.com/Unitech/pm2]. There are also terminal dashes around like pm2-gui [https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2-gui]. Nice (and clean) work @formidable.

How about clustering the Node server? By default, node uses only one process. Making the server use all available processes requires a bit more work (see https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html or https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) but will probably do more justice to Node.js vs Python.

> Please note that this describes something you would do for a toy project. Exactly my thoughts... this is for toy projects. It's 2016 and we have proper tools like PM2 [0], StrongPM [1], or even better, Serverless [2] (this is only for AWS but sooo cool) ... [0] https://github.com/Unitech/pm2 [1] http://strong-pm.io/ [2] https://github.com/serverless/serverless

For hassle-free node apps deployment, I use and recommend PM2 : a [free and open source tool](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) As its doc states: PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks. It also provides a very nice integration with keymetrics.io, which is the paid service which finance PM2 development (they do provide a free tier). PS: Apart from using it and loving it, I am not affiliated with this product's team.