nodejs forever : How to run my npm application

Question

Right now i am runnign my nodejs application as npm start. i want to run it in background. I found forever package for this but dont know how can i run

Answer 1

In 2020

Use forever npm package ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/forever )

forever start -c "npm " /path/to/app/dir/

EXAMPLE

./ means current directory

forever start -c "npm start" ./