Run nextjs application in the background

Question

I have an application built with nextJs and this application should work on a local server (Windows). my customer told me that he needed this application to work in the background after searching I found that I needed to use a package called pm2 and when I used it gives me an error and I found that I needed to make some configurations for it and I can't found any helping resources, please help

the application run automatically when the server boot or reboot and not using cmd to run it — Ahmed Mohammed, Jan 17 '23 at 09:49
You might want to have a look at this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20575257/how-do-i-run-a-powershell-script-when-the-computer-starts — Likepineapple, Jan 17 '23 at 09:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '23 at 11:06

I found that to run nextJs application in the background you will need a custom configuration

you need to download the pm2 globally in your system
create a file with the name ecosystem.config.js in the root folder next to the package.json file
you need to put your config data in this file which would be something like this

module.exports = {
    apps: [
        {
            name: "inventory_test",
            script: "node_modules/next/dist/bin/next",
            args: "start -p 3333", //running on port 3000
            watch: false,
        },
    ],
};

you should set the name as the name you want to see when you check the list of pm2
the problem will be solved when you set the script as I did in the code above to be more precise the default run of pm2 is to go to the node js folder in the system and try to make start for the application using npm directly but this is the problem we need to make it use the node runner from the nextjs itself or something like this so we change the script as above
after that, we set the arguments that we should run after the npm and in my example is the arg start and choose the port for our application too

and now we make our config

NOTES

you should make build before you start the application
to run the project you will open the folder of the project in the terminal || cmd || cmder and run the command pm2 start ecosystem.config.js

Run nextjs application in the background

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