How to start the node service automatically?

Question

I developed a push notification service using node js. To do this, I have to start the service manually every time.

How to start this service automatically? For example: if I logged in, it should start automatically. thank you in advance

Answer 1

If you need a Windows service that starts when Windows starts, you can use the sc create command to create the service.

eg.

sc create MyServiceName binpath= "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\somefolder\service.js" start= auto depend= "Tcpip/Afd" DisplayName= "A friendly name for my service" 

Remember the spaces after the = signs.

You can find more information here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc990289.aspx

If you want the application to start when you log in, you can use regedit.exe to create the REG_SZ entry containing your command in the following registry path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run

Answer 2

There are several ways to do this,

Create a file with the extension .cmd and just add what you write to CMD Prompt to start the service as the contents of this file.

 node Path:\service.js 'Assumes path to node.exe is set 

Right-click and create a shortcut for this file and drag the shortcut to the Launch folder.

Start → All programs → Start with the right mouse button → Open

Task Scheduler can also be used.

Now there are some NPM modules for managing node processes. See forever and PM2 .

Answer 3

Use Apache on Windows http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/platform/windows.html . Install Apache 2 http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/install-apache-2-windows.shtml

See this answer by Apache and Node.js on the same server

Answer 4

If you want to run the node application as a service, I suggest that forever is the program that you need to demonize the application on your computer.

I use it, and this is the de facto way in Nodejs to run the program as the windows start up, without having to open a Windows session or put something in autorun or using the task scheduler.

Answer 5

I use forever on linux, which looks like this: there are Windows versions here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/forever-win

You can use this to unmount your node applications on windows.