pm2 startup doesn't work - node.js

Question

I setup my nodejs server successfully and I'm using it on Ubuntu 15.04 server, my issue is that I want my node applications to keep running when the server reboots so I tried pm2, forever and crontab but none of them worked for me, after rebooting I need to start the node application manually.
I tried pm2 as follow:
pm2 startup ubuntu
pm2 start appname
pm2 save
The pm2-init.sh file:
#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 98 02
#
# description: PM2 next gen process manager for Node.js
# processname: pm2
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: pm2
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $network
# Should-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: PM2 init script
# Description: PM2 is the next gen process manager for Node.js
### END INIT INFO
NAME=pm2
PM2=/home/bashar/.nvm/versions/node/v4.1.1/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2
USER=bashar
export PATH=/home/bashar/.nvm/versions/node/v4.1.1/bin:$PATH
export PM2_HOME="/home/bashar/.pm2"
get_user_shell() {
local shell=$(getent passwd ${1:-`whoami`} | cut -d: -f7 | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//')
if [[ $shell == *"/sbin/nologin" ]] || [[ $shell == "/bin/false" ]] || [[ -z "$shell" ]];
then
shell="/bin/bash"
fi
echo "$shell"
}
super() {
local shell=$(get_user_shell $USER)
su - $USER -s $shell -c "PATH=$PATH; PM2_HOME=$PM2_HOME $*"
}
start() {
echo "Starting $NAME"
export PM2_HOME
super $PM2 resurrect
}
stop() {
super $PM2 dump
super $PM2 delete all
super $PM2 kill
}
restart() {
echo "Restarting $NAME"
stop
start
}
reload() {
echo "Reloading $NAME"
super $PM2 reload all
}
status() {
echo "Status for $NAME:"
super $PM2 list
RETVAL=$?
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status
;;
restart)
restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
force-reload)
reload
;;
*)
echo "Usage: {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
That didn't work, so I tried to use crontab as follow:
First, I create a script and named it starter.sh
#!/bin/bash
pm2 start /home/bashar/www/node/server.js
Then opened crontab editor:
crontab -e
#reboot /home/bashar/www/node/server.js
Also the above method didn't start my application on the server reboot.
Please advice,

Answer 1

pm2 seems to have a bug during the reboot. After adding pm2 to the automagically starting processes in /etc/init.d, the script works fine under normal processing, but does something weird under a reboot: it wipes the pm2.dump file empty. There are several bug reports like this one, but so far it's still a bug...
The easiest work-around that I've found is as follows:
Edit /etc/init.d/pm2-init.sh, and comment out the line "super $PM2 dump" in the section for stop()
Whenever you modify your pm2 process list, remember to do a manual "pm2 dump"
If anyone has a more permanent solution, please let me know... :)

Answer 2

For anyone who is here looking for Windows machines(as I did), pm2 startup works with unix system only.
https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/startup/#init-systems-supported
Try this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2-windows-startup