How to run meteor on startup on Ubuntu server

Question

I learn meteorjs and I have a small remote VPS.

I want:

1. Set auto pulling from git repository my meteor project.
2. Put script into auto start which r

Answer 1

Here is what I do:

description "meteor app server"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
pre-start script
   set -e
   rm -f /path/to/your/app/.meteor/local/db/mongod.lock
end script
exec /bin/su - ec2-user -c '/path/to/your/app/meteor_server.sh'
post-stop script
    pkill -f meteor
end script

The meteor_server.sh script contains:

cd /path/to/your/app/; meteor run -p 3000 --production

Make sure to chmod +x the meteor_server.sh script and change the path to your app in the 3 locations. The script also kills all meteor tasks when it is stopped so it works for running a single meteor app only on your server. I got a meteor app running quickly this way using nginx but node seems to consume a lot of memory.