Basic Upstart Job for Node Application

node-app-upstart.conf

description "Node App Upstart Job"

author "Node Kid <_@nodekid.com>"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn
respawn limit 5 60

script

  ##############################################################################

  APP_NAME="my-app"
  APP_PATH="/var/www/nodes"
  APP_ROOT="${APP_PATH}/${APP_NAME}/server"
  APP_USER="www-data"

  NODE_BIN="/usr/local/bin/node"

  ##############################################################################

  exec start-stop-daemon \
  --chdir "${APP_ROOT}" \
  --start \
  --make-pidfile \
  --pidfile "${APP_ROOT}/run/${APP_NAME}.pid" \
  --chuid "${APP_USER}" \
  --exec \
  $NODE_BIN "${APP_ROOT}/${APP_NAME}.js" \
  >> "${APP_ROOT}/log/${APP_NAME}.log" 2>&1

end script