What is forever in nodejs?

Question

I am having hard time understanding what is forever in nodejs.

Can someone explain what is forever in simplest way that i can understand and what is th

Answer 1

Forever basically allows you to run your nodejs application as a process.

Without forever you might type npm start or node index.js to start your application and it will run in your terminal session.

With forever, you can start it off and still have access to your terminal session/close it.