Best Practices to run Nodejs

The safe user does not have permissions to use default http port 80.
Do not run your applications as a root.

To use http port for non root user,
use the below

sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin

 sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep `readlink -f \`which node\``

Now you can able access default http port.

 

for nodejs

node app.js

production:

pm2 start app.js

forever start app.js

 

 

instead of sudo node app.js

sudo pm2 app.js

etc.

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