How to keep parse server and dashboard online? - node.js

Question

i'm using parse server and parse dashboard for my push notification and DB stuffs, my problem is when i establish an ssh connection to my VPS and run them both everything is fine until i turn off my computer or disconnect from the server dashboard and parse server will terminated! is there any solution to make them online permanently?
commands i use:
for starting the parse server ->
npm start
for starting the parse dashboard ->
parse-dashboard --config config.json --allowInsecureHTTP
even i tried to duplicate nodejs running but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Include the ParseDashboard inside your ParseServer. If you are using the parse-server-example, install parse-dasboard inside parse-server-example using npm install parse-dashboard and copy this inside index.js
var ParseDashboard = require('parse-dashboard');
var ParseServer = require('parse-server').ParseServer;
var dashboard = new ParseDashboard({
"apps": [{
"serverURL": "https://yourserver.url",
"appId": "myAppId",
"masterKey": "myMasterKey",
"appName": "YourAppName"
}
],
"users": [{
"user": "user",
"pass": process.env.USER_PASS || "pass"
}]
}, allowInsecureHTTP);
var api = new ParseServer({
databaseURI: databaseUri || 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dev',
cloud: process.env.CLOUD_CODE_MAIN || __dirname + '/cloud/main.js',
appId: process.env.APP_ID || 'myAppId',
masterKey: process.env.MASTER_KEY || '', //Add your master key here. Keep it secret!
serverURL: process.env.SERVER_URL || 'http://localhost:1337/parse', // Don't forget to change to https if needed
liveQuery: {
classNames: ["Post", "Comments"] // List of classes to support for query subscriptions
}
});

Answer 2

usually, whenever you exit your SSH session, your active session will be killed. Using screen command will create a session that will not be killed even you closed your terminal / exit SSH. And you can do exactly what you usually do.
described in this link:
https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-dashboard/issues/162
enter screen at SSH session.some instruction and info will display, dismiss it with spacebar. here you go, a new screen that will remain running even you exit your SSH session.you might run the following command:
cd /var/www/parse/parse-dashboard npm start --config some/path/to/parse-dashboard-config.json --allowInsecureHTTP=1
thanks to #cricket_007