sysvinit VS PM2

It's a plus because Gentoo fully supports the choice of Systemd or OpenRC. It also has minit, dumb-init, sysvinit, cinit in tree for the more adventurous. No one was calling the AUR bloat, the parent comment just mentions that Gentoo has an equivalent project, GURU. Source: almost 2 years ago

Meet PM2, the process manager that’s here to make your deployment woes disappear. It helps you manage your Node.js processes like a boss, ensuring everything runs smoothly in production. With features like clustering, load balancing, and centralized logging, PM2 is like having a command center for your applications. It's the kind of tool that makes you wonder how you ever lived without it. - Source: dev.to / 21 days ago

Then go to your project dir, and install packages via npm or yarn, then build your app. After that, install pm2 to run your app (forever):. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7. It has a lot of features that will help you in the process of deploying and maintaining your application. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

1) Perhaps these limitations are relevant in the gaming industry, but for web applications, 4GB of memory seems sufficient to me, especially on the frontend where a single user performs multiple tasks. As for multithreading, we can utilize tools like pm2 and load balancing. Additionally, developing a multithreaded program is typically more challenging than creating a single-threaded program and executing it across... Source: 11 months ago

I recently moved to using Docker as my "process manager," after using pm2 for a couple years to manage 5-10 random apps/APIs. Even for fairly simple stuff (and definitely as you go from medium complexity on up), Docker is superior in my opinion - easy workflow for updating from a Git repo (git pull && docker compose up --build -d is all you need most of the time), system packages (e.g. C/C++ library headers) are... Source: 11 months ago