OSX launchd plist for node forever process

Question

I am trying to write a launchd.plist file for my node server. I am using forever to run my node server. I would like the server to start on boot. I would also like to wait fo

Answer 1

This is not an answer of the original questions, but I was looking for a simple way to start a node server (and keep it running) after reboot. I found pm2 to be a much easier to set up than the solutions for forever above.

# install pm2
npm install pm2 -g

# start server
pm2 start app.js

# start pm2 after reboot (might need sudo)
$ pm2 startup

http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/startup/