Most appropriate method to persist a sbt process after exiting SSH session?

Question

How do I keep a process, specifically one spawned via the sbt command, alive after exiting my ssh session? The following related questions [1], [2], [3

Answer 1

It looks like SBT hanging in the background is a JLine issue. There is a workaround:

sbt -Djline.terminal=jline.UnsupportedTerminal about &

Just add this flag to any SBT command you want to run in the background.