forever example about node-export-server HOT 5 CLOSED

So I've finally figured this out... forever won't work if highcharts-export-server is installed globally as documented.

Install locally:

npm install highcharts-export-server

Then create a file for our node app called highcharts-server.js

// include the exporter module
const exporter = require('highcharts-export-server');

//Set up a pool of PhantomJS workers
exporter.initPool();

exporter.startServer(7801);

Then start the server with pm2

forever start -l forever-highcharts.log -a -o highcharts.log -e error.log highcharts-node.js

Though I've also found a newer more actively maintained and better documented alternative to forever - https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

pm2 start highcharts-server.js --name "highcharts-export-server"

Hopefully this can be incorporated into the docs somewhere to help the next guy. Thanks!

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if u want to pass options to highchart server you can

pm2 start ./bin/cli.js --name='highchart-server' -- --enableServer 1 --port 8080

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That's perfect, thank you!

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Thanks!

I've added a section on running with forever (by cloning the export repo to avoid having to write a boilerplate script).

I will look into pm2 and add it to the docs once I've tried it out. :)

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This worked for me.

sudo pm2 start highcharts-export-server -- --enableServer 1 --host 10.4.0.9 --port 80 --allowCodeExecution true

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