Start application with pm2 if starts form gulp

Question

Hi I was following a tutorial to build an nodejs app. This tutorial is using gulp, to run my app I just do gulp dev to start all things. In my gulpfile I have:

var fs = require('fs')
var gulp = require('gulp')

fs.readdirSync(__dirname+'/gulp').forEach(function(task){
    require('./gulp/' + task)
})

gulp.task('dev', ['watch:css', 'watch:js', 'dev:server'])

The code in ./gulp/server.js

var gulp = require('gulp')
var nodemon = require('gulp-nodemon')

gulp.task('dev:server', function(){
    nodemon({
        script: 'server.js',
        ext:'js',
        ignore: ['ng*', 'gulp*', 'assets*'],
        env: { 'NODE_ENV': require('../config').ENV }
    })
})

Is it possible somehow to use pm2 with this gulp setup, I saw some questions in stackoverflow and google, but cant get anything done. If someone can help me would be great. Thank you in advance.

Chest

It should be possible, but we'd like to know the code in ./gulp/(server).js – Gastroenteritis

Hi code-jaff, thx I updated my question – Chest

Answer 1

It's available at http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/pm2-api/

var gulp = require('gulp');
var pm2 = require('pm2');

gulp.task('dev:server', function () {
    pm2.connect(true, function () {
        pm2.start({
            name: 'server',
            script: 'server.js',
            env: {
                "NODE_ENV": require('../config').ENV
            }
        }, function () {
            console.log('pm2 started');
            pm2.streamLogs('all', 0);
        });
    });
});

Implementation from https://github.com/Unitech/PM2/issues/1525#issuecomment-134236549

Gastroenteritis