In Windows or Linux, the application can be operated in the background, which is similar in concept of UNIX daemons. In this section, let's look at how we can run an Electron application or a Node.js server as a Windows server or UNIX daemons. There are some CLI tools already available in Node.js world, such as pm2 or forever, which gives the same functionality for node servers. These programs run the node server as background service in Windows or daemons in Linux.
For each platform, we need to write separate code to run the application in the background as service. To create a Windows service, the same node-windows library can be used. Let's create a small Windows service that runs in the background on Windows platform. Background services can be invoked using CLI tools, such as pm2, forever, winser, or may be some other similar Node.js modules. In this section, let's look at how we can start a Node.js server as Windows service and integrate...