Once you go serious about production, you need to make sure that your application is running properly, without bugs, without performance issues and without downtimes.
That’s why we it’s a good idea to use PM2. It’s a set of features for both hardening your current PM2 Runtime Process manager and monitoring applications in production.
With PM2 you get:
- A Real-time Monitoring Web Interface
- Issues & Exception Tracking
- Deployment reporting
- Realtime logs
- Email & Slack notifications
- Custom Metrics Monitoring
- Custom Actions Center
To specify a port number for pm2, you need to use — to tell pm2 to stop parsing his options and give the rest to the program, then when you spawn direct binary so :
pm2 start index.js --port 8082
