Node Deployment

PORT=8080 nohup npm start &

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• We are temporarily defining a process.env.PORT by specifying PORT=8080. This tells our terminal that we have an environment variable called PORT. We then just specify a value.
• We use our friend nohup to pass the process on to a different thread on the operating system. Closing the application is no longer a problem!
• Next, we just run npm start as per usual.
• We end the command with &; this just lets nohup know to start the service in the background. It results in you being able to use your shell session without worrying about the script blocking you from executing commands.

Production Example

• On your server...
• PORT=80 nohup npm start &