Forever example with config file

forever-config.json

{
    // Sample configuration for app in /home/myuser/app dir
    "uid": "app",
    "max": 5,  // restart the app successively maximum of 5 times
    "spinSleepTime": 1000, // time to wait until a next restart is attempted (in ms)
    "append": true, // append the logs, do not overwrite
    "watch": true, // watch for changes and restart if they occur
    "script": "server.js",  // main startup script (almost like issuing node server.js)
    "sourceDir": "/home/myuser/app", // the dir where your entire app code resides (dir structure is recursively traversed)
    "args": ["--myAPIKey", "xBlzdn84fa"] // pass any arguments to your app
}

forever.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# install forever globally
npm i forever

# run forever with a config file 
forever start /home/myuser/app/forever-config.json

# list running scripts with forever list
forever list

# checks logs with following command
forever logs

#restart all scripts should you need to
forever restart all

# stop running script with stop or stopall
# forever stopall