Node.js, Python & Ruby apps

Customers set up apps in Setup Node.js App, Setup Python App and Setup Ruby App.

How apps run#

• Admins choose which runtime versions are available in Servers › App Selectors. Runtimes are installed under /opt/nexpanel/runtimes.
• Each app gets its own virtual environment in the account's home (~/nodevenv, ~/virtualenv, ~/rubyvenv), its own systemd service and a unix socket. The web server sends the app's domain or path to that socket.
• Apps run as the account user inside the account's isolated environment and count against its resource limits.

Managing an app#

From the app's page customers can start, stop and restart it, view its log, set environment variables, and run commands such as npm install, pip install -r requirements.txt or bundle install in the app's environment.