Restarting Node Applications

julian

A persistent pain point in NodeBB usage has always been installing plugins/themes. For example, the steps to install a plugin are as follows:

npm install nodebb-plugin-myplugin
Navigate to the "Plugins" page and activate it
Restart NodeBB (plugin is not truly active otherwise)
(Optional) If the plugin requires setup, navigate to its page in the control panel
(Optional) Restart NodeBB again

This is a definite step back from other (non-node based) platforms, where plugin installation is a two step process:

Install plugin (e.g. unzip to plugin directory)
Activate plugin

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Sp4rkR4t

This is a very nice step indeed.

RefinedSoftware

So will this restart the entire NodeBB server, dropping all websocket connections, or just restart the plugin?

julian

Running ./nodebb restart will stop and start the NodeBB, all web socket connections will experience a temporary disconnect, yes, but they will reconnect almost immediately.

Olegzandr Denman

nice article, useful stuff

ChaosYamYT

@julian said in Restarting Node Applications:

A persistent pain point in NodeBB usage has always been installing plugins/themes. For example, the steps to install a plugin are as follows:

npm install nodebb-plugin-myplugin

Navigate to the "Plugins" page and activate it

Restart NodeBB (plugin is not truly active otherwise)

(Optional) If the plugin requires setup, navigate to its page in the control panel

(Optional) Restart NodeBB again

This is a definite step back from other (non-node based) platforms, where plugin installation is a two step process:

Install plugin (e.g. unzip to plugin directory)

Activate plugin

Click here to see the full blog post

I don't know where the NodeBB directory is

PitaJ

@ChaosYamYT this is a really old Post. You'll want to just install plugins from the admin panel.