How does one start a node.js server as a daemon process?

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Forever is answer to your question.

Install

$ curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
$ npm install forever
# Or to install as a terminal command everywhere:
$ npm install -g forever

Usage

Using Forever from the command line

$ forever start server.js

Using an instance of Forever from Node.js

var forever = require('forever');

  var child = new forever.Forever('your-filename.js', {
    max: 3,
    silent: true,
    args: []
  });

  child.on('exit', this.callback);
  child.start();

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