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daemon.js

var child_process = require('child_process')
 
function child(exe, args, env) {
    var child = child_process.spawn(exe, args, { 
            detached: true,
            stdio: ['ignore', 'ignore', 'ignore'],
            env: env
    })
    child.unref()
    return child
}
 
module.exports = function(nodeBin) {
    console.log('Daemonize process')
 
    if (process.env.__daemon) {
        return process.pid
    }
    process.env.__daemon = true
 
    var args = [].concat(process.argv)
    var node = args.shift()
    var env = process.env
    child(node, args, env)
    return process.exit()
}

server.js

var http = require('http')
var daemon = require('./daemon')
 
daemon()
 
var http = require("http")
 
var port = 8090
var host = "127.0.0.1"
 
var server = http.createServer(
    function(request, response){
        response.write("Hello World!")
        response.end()
})
 
server.listen(port, host)

$ ./server.js
$ curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8090/
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8090 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8090
> User-Agent: curl/7.48.0
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:52:55 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< 
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
Hello World!