rename process using pm2 programmatic api

Question

I have an electron app which uses pm2 to start some apps using the pm2 module.Everything is fine.However I am trying to implement the following feature:Renaming an app you have started.I know that using the cli I can do the following:

pm2 restart app --name"New name";

So I found the pm2.restart function which takes an Object and a callback as a parameter.So I tried this:

var options = {app:"Blogsport App",name:"New name"};
var callback = function(err){
   if(err) {console.log('Failed')}
   else {console.log('App renamed')}
};

pm2.restart(options,callback);

This will always log "App renamed".However If I do pm2 list I see that the app has not be renamed.Is there anything I can do to rename an app without deleting it and start it again with a different name?

just for a test you could write something like exec('pm2 restart app --name "New name"', function(err, stdout, stderr){ if(err) console.log(err);} etc.. See if it's working that way, if so then it might be a bug ? you will need child_proc var exec = require('child_process').exec; — Pogrindis
I know I can do this with exec by replacing app with my app name but I would prefer to do this using the pm2 if that's possible — Manos Kounelakis

gentur ariyadi gentur ariyadi · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-20T02:36:22

you can try this:

pm2 restart id --name newName

Example: your id is 1 , then you can type : pm2 restart 1 --name development

rename process using pm2 programmatic api

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