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Basically I want to deploy a node application on FreeBSD 12.

Ideally I'd prefer to build it on one system, and install it in production separately, so as to install as few development tools on the server as possible. Then I'd like to arrange that this application run as a service in the most FreeBSD canonical manner possible.

I've read a few tutorials on how to do this and depending on when they were published, they seem to recommend all sorts of approaches: pm12, passenger, forever.

The application in question is: https://github.com/Akkadius/glass-isc-dhcp

As you might have already guessed, I don't have much experience with node at all.

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  • Probably with an rc.d script, and that is not necessarily trivial as it would be with modern Linux.
    – Michael Hampton
    Feb 8, 2021 at 22:20
  • Yeah, the rc.d part of it I'm fine with. It's the node toolchain that I'm not sure about. npm, where do the packages get installed, can I get it to install in one directory, do I need home directories...? etc
    – pnadeau
    Feb 8, 2021 at 22:38
  • You can use py-supervisord instead of a plain rc.d script.
    – arrowd
    Feb 9, 2021 at 6:46
  • @MichaelHampton I would put writing a rc.d script up against so-called "modern Linux" any minute of any day and have BSD spit in Linux' face when it's running.
    – Rob
    Feb 10, 2021 at 10:04

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