Deployment
Set up your favorite HTTP server so that your api is served. you can use a number of deployment tool, some of them are the following.
Using Forever
[sudo] npm install forever -g
There are two ways to use forever: through the command line or by using forever in your code. Note: If you are using forever programmatically you should install forever-monitor.
Command Line
You can use forever to run scripts continuously (whether it is written in node.js or not).
Example
forever start index.js
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