How to use PM2 in an meteor project?

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Hi there,
PM2 seems to be not suitable with meteorJS.

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { pm2 } from 'pm2';

//also tried non-daemon mode with pm2.connect(false....
pm2.connect(function(err) { //start up pm2 god
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    process.exit(2);
  }

  pm2.start({
    script    : 'path/to/binary',         
    exec_mode : 'fork',
    //args: params,  //separate them params with commas
  }, function(err, apps) {
    pm2.disconnect();   // Disconnect from PM2
    if (err) throw err
  });
});

the same logic/codes works fine in a nodeJS application. Am i missing anything or is it a meteor related issue?

thanks for your time

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pm2 uses require syntax, so you should use either:

import pm2 from 'pm2';

or

const pm2 = require('pm2');
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thanks for the quick reply. I tried this as well. PM2 launches up without any issue (checked the running process). The only problem i am having is that the defined binary is not being launched. For some reason the pm2.start does not get executed. Any idea?

EDIT: the function is erroring and the error is null

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Not sure - I’ve just done essentially the same test you did and it worked fine. Have you checked ~.pm2/logs/ for stderr and stdout data?

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weird. I am on OSX 10.12.X and my pm2 version seems to be

In memory PM2 version: 2.8.0
Local PM2 version: 2.3.0

What OS are you on?

tried pm2 update - keep showing 2.3.0 as local version.
the error and stdout data is empty. If i do pm2 list after running the above meteor app (even with your suggested edits) it is empty. Seems it won’t run the binary but only launch up pm2.

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Ubuntu 16.04.

Not sure about your version differences. I just installed pm2 from scratch (meteor npm i -g pm2), created a new meteor project, and installed the API in that (meteor i --save pm2). Incidentally, that’s v2.8.0.

Is your script path correct? You could try with something like /bin/ls

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@robfallows - trying it with something like ls or date indeed works well. Using it with my custom binary located in myproject/private/bins/binary or myproject/server/binary fails. Any idea on how i could fix this? I suspect its a path related issue.

EDIT: placing the custom binary in a place like /Applications/ on osx or /usr/bin on linux is a hackaround. I still prefer executing the binary out of my meteor application folder.

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Are you using relative paths (including implied relative) - paths like app.js, bin/app.sh?

If you are, you need to be aware that in development mode, your app is not running in your project root - it’s actually in /path/to/your/app/.meteor/local/build/. In production, it’s relative to the ROOT_URL environment variable.

So, either use absolute paths, or the ostrio:meteor-path package is a handy way to find the current root of your app.