Running several scripts with forever - node.js

Question

I have several scripts in a directory, each of the scripts called bot and it's number, from 1 to the number of the scripts.
What I would like to do is somehow run all of the scripts by 1 command line through the terminal (Using Ubuntu), I've used forever command to run the script without stopping and etc.
Could you make it through the terminal or using a node js script?
Is there any other commands like forever that would do it for me?

Answer 1

You could use it through the command line with the command forever.
You'll need to create a JSON file with the files you need.
Example:
[
{
// App1
"uid": "app1", // ID of the script.
"append": true,
"watch": true,
"script": "bot1.js", // Name of the script
"sourceDir": "" // Where the script is located. If it's in the
// same location as the json file, leave it ""
},
{
// App2 = > Same as app1, just different script name.
"uid": "app2",
"append": true,
"watch": true,
"script": "bot2.js",
"sourceDir": ""
}
]
Then you need just to run the JSON file through the forever command.
Example:
forever start apps.json
You can see more information about forever here.

Answer 2

My answer is the same as the answer by #Nikita Ivanov but with pm2. I personally like pm2, which also uses a config file just like forever, but it can be a js, json or yaml file.
// JS File
module.exports = {
apps : [{
name: "bot1",
script: "./bot1.js",
watch: true, // some optional param just for example
env: {
"NODE_ENV": "development",
}, // some optional param just for example
env_production : {
"NODE_ENV": "production"
} // some optional param just for example
},{
name: "bot2",
script: "./bot2.js",
instances: 4, // some optional param just for example
exec_mode: "cluster" // some optional param just for example
}]
}
Now if you do not know the number of scripts there are, it ok. Since it is JS, you can write a script to get the list of all the files in the directory and create an array similar to the one above and use that config for pm2.
module.exports = (function () {
// logic to get all file names and create the 'apps' array
return {
apps: apps
}
})()
Furthermore, you can also use the pm2 npm module and use pm2 as a module in a js script and do this.
See PM2 DOCS for more info.