This project uses Vagrant and Puppet to help quickly stand up development environments. If you already have Vagrant installed on your machine, then just vagrant up.
For convenience, some of the pm2 commands can be executed through Vagrant directly:
vagrant app start: Starts the app on all available processors
vagrant app stop: Stops all running instances of the app
vagrant app restart: Restarts all running instances of the app
vagrant app list: Lists the apps that are currently running
vagrant app log: Display a live log of all the apps that are currently running
The default apt-get NodeJS package is an older version (0.6.x). Joyent has documented a way to get the most recent stable version here:
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#ubuntu-mint-elementary-os
Before following the guide, it's useful to get rid of the built-in node package if it
has been installed:
sudo apt-get --purge remove node
This application is built on top of Express. To work with it properly you'll need to install the express package globally:
sudo npm install -g express
PM2 is a Node app-runner that keeps track of processes and logs, and auto-restarts your node app when it runs into a fatal error.
http://devo.ps/blog/2013/06/26/goodbye-node-forever-hello-pm2.html
sudo npm install -g pm2