How to restart nodejs locally?

Question

JavaScript

There is a local server on nodejs, sometimes errors fly out on it, i.e. the server itself works fine, it doesn't crash, but after that I need to restart it so that the endpoint works fine. Is there any way to restart the server automatically? I thought to organize the process as follows:
1. If an error occurs on the front, we send a request to a separate endpoint.
2. On the node on this endpoint, I will put the restart command and that's it.
The project is local and in development, so you can shaman anything. Just to restart. Is it possible to organize this?

Answer 1

IMHO, in case of errors, it is better to write a flag to some known directory and, for example, periodically check the presence of this flag by cron. If there is a file, reboot the server and delete the file.

Answer 2

"standard" script

while true do node index.js >> errors.log; sleep 5; done