I wrote a bash script before anything existed for node.js to run a process on a server...people were just doing `node ./index.js` -- my script created and init.d/start-node.sh script and suprisingly its my most popular project even today -- that was back in 2010 I wrote that shit. SHortly after it got picked up by some js newsletters and HN I found nodemon and switched to that.

For what its worth now I use systemd scripts.