w95psp / nodejs-server-manager

Host multiple NodeJS app on a server, with reverse-proxy built-in

NodeJS-server-manager

Host multiples NodeJS app on a server, with reverse-proxy built-in

Warning!

I build it firstly in a very personal purpose. I've done it quickly to have something working in a small time. So, the source code is quite the mess, sorry about that, also, there isn't any documentation, and sadly neither any comment in sources :-(

(en) Sum-up

I'm a big fan of NodeJS, and the thing is I haven't loads of servers to store my apps.

Thus, to host my apps, I usually create a daemon on a Linux virtual server, but for maintenance, that's not really convenient.

So, I'm developping this app to help people like me to host easily numerous NodeJS apps.

(fr) Résumé

Je suis très fan de NodeJS, mais pour héberger mes applications, je ne dispose pas d'un grand nombre de serveurs.

Ainsi, pour héberger mes applications, généralement, je crée un démon sur un serveur virtuel sous Linux, mais ce n'est pas vraiment pratique pour la maintenance, entre autre.

Donc je développe cette application pour aider les personnes comme moi à héberger et monitorer facilement de nombreuses applications NodeJS.

Functionalities

If I host numerous apps, I also want to let people access it. I have two domain names, but I have something like twenty apps running on my servers. In order to make my apps and websites visible to everybody, I use a reverse proxy.

So I have a server redirecting every request my IP receive, and this server redirect requests, according to the sub domain name, to various servers and port numbers.

In the past, I used Apache to do that, but that wasn't very pratical. Indeed, it was heavy and not very flexible.

So, I took all my needs and made this "NodeJS-server-manager"

• Run multiples NodeJS programs
• Manage theses NodeJS instances with an unique interface
  • Run, stop, restart and instance
  • View stdout
  • View errors
  • View logs
  • Filter logs / errors / stdout
  • Change redirections (interact with the reverse proxy directly)
• Run a NodeJS powered ReverseProxy (thanks to node-http-proxy!)
  • Add redirections
  • Delete redirections
  • Edit redirections

Todo list

• Clean code & ES6
• Uniformize way of doing stuff
• Separate interface from everything else
• Add passwords
• Make all of that configurable
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