Informative: Running insight as a service with forever

[MarkPfennig]

A requirement of running a block explorer such insight, is to have it running permanently.

A clean solution to doing this, is to use forever an npm module. First, install forever.

npm install -g forever

Now you can launch insight forever by using the following command

cd insight
BITCOIND_USER="bitcoinrpc" BITCOIND_PASS="pass" INSIGHT_NETWORK='livenet' INSIGHT_PUBLIC_PATH="public" forever start node_modules/insight-bitcore-api/insight.js

This will also restart insight if it crashes.

A full list of running forever processes can be found by calling

forever list

To stop a process

forever stop 0

To restart

forever restart 0

Check the forever github for a full list of commands and options

[cmgustavo]

Thanks for the information! Also we usually use "supervisor" if we are developing : npm -g supervisor
On the live demo of insight we are using pm2 (https://github.com/Unitech/pm2), that is similar to forever.

[MarkPfennig]

Thank you for the information also, I am modifying the insight ui for bitmark today, and will follow your approach :)

[braydonf]

There is now also this guide available: https://bitcore.io/guides/upstart-daemon