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I am trying to deploy nodejs in a windows environment. As far as I can see nodejs is just a standard application run through the command-line. However running it that way is not very practical in a server environment. Is there a way to run it as a windows service, so you get all the benefits of controlling the execution as you have with other services? I found similar forum entries about this subject, however they are all related to running nodejs in a linux environment, how would you go about doing this in a window environment?

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  • What's not practical? Commented Sep 16, 2013 at 16:41
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    It's not practical, since it requires you to constantly be logged into the server in a session with a command line, and if the server is rebooted or nodejs crashes, you need to rerun the command, so you need to constantly monitor it. Commented Sep 16, 2013 at 16:43
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    possible duplicate of How to install node.js as windows service? Commented Sep 16, 2013 at 16:49
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    You might want to read this, hanselman.com/blog/… It basically solves all the problems you mentioned. Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 17:01

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Nodejs application is not like mongodb, redis, nginx ... It's not supposed to run as an os service.

As a best practice, people usually use a process management tool like pm2 to run production nodejs applications. You can give it a try by creating a deploy.sh or deploy.bat as an execution file which trigger pm2 command to start or restart the application.

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How about the MongoDB that goes along with the Node.js server ?

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