nodejs:differences-dev-prod [N99panel Documentation]

Differences between NodeJS development and production modes

N99panel offers two modes for App deployment - development and production . Here we point out the differences between the two modes so that a user can easily deploy their app - initially in development mode and then later in production mode.

	Development Mode	Production Mode
App Trigger	The user triggers the app via SSH	The system triggers the app as per the config settings
App Stability	The app will only run for as long SSH session or the process is running (if placed in background using &). Still the process is unpredictable. *System or SSHD restart will stop the app*	It is highly stable. *Even after system restart the App would also start*
Environment Variables	Typically the environment variables pertaining to node etc. would be applicable as per SSH environment	Environment variables file can be specified while configuring the App
Resource References	If a user is starting the App from the App's folder, all references within the code etc. would be relative to that folder.	Relative references to resources will not work. Absolute or full path of resources needs to be specified. Here we advise that you design your app in such a way, that the absolute path is specified only once in the environment variable file, and the same can then be referred for creating assets/resources paths.