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systemdify

Automatically create a systemd unit file for your Node application based on package.json

Install

npm install --save systemdify

or to use the CLI

npm install -g systemdify

Node API

var systemdify = require('systemdify')

var file = initdify({
	command: 'node ./server.js',
	description: 'My Awesome Application',
	cwd: '/path/to/my-app/'
})

Will return the following:

[Unit]
Description=My Awesome Application
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=node ./server.js
Restart=always
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/my-app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

CLI

Systemdify will figure out what to do automatically, so you don't have to.

Simply execute systemdify and it will generate a unit file for you based on your package.json file. It will place your unit file under /etc/systemd/system/<package.name>.service by default.

Systemdify will try to use your npm start script and fall back to executing your main entry if you don't have one.

Systemdify will always exit cleanly when it issues a warning, but will fail if node is not installed on the system.

Usage
  $ systemdify <folder>

Options
  -o, --output Write output to file

Examples
  $ systemdify /path/to/my/app -o my-app.service
  $ cat my-app.service

  [Unit]
  description=My Application
  ...

NPM Hooks

The recommended way to use to module is to add it to your dev dependencies and execute the package after you've done an NPM install.

...
scripts: {
  "install": "sudo ./node_modules/.bin/systemdify"
},
devDepencencies: {
  "systemdify": "^0.2.0"
}
...