Run sails console on a different port then sails lift - console

Question

How do I run sails console and sails lift at the same time?
From what I have read (https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/tree/master/lib/app) I need to use sails.load instead of sails.lift. I do not have the slightest idea where I need to put that and how it connects with sails console. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Answer 1

sails lift and sails console natively handle some parameters. So you can use:
sails lift to run your app on the default port (1337 if you don't modify your config)
sails console --port 1338 in an other tab/window to run the console on another port

Answer 2

Try with
sails lift --port 8080
That worked out for me.

Answer 3

open config/env/production.js and scroll down, find
//port 80 end then, uncomment it

Answer 4

Add this line under config/locale.js. now run the application again now your application will run over port 80 and if you want to run the app on some other port, you need to replace 80 with that port number.
module.exports{
port: process.env.PORT || 80,
}

Answer 5

find //port: 80 end then, uncomment it in config/env/production.js and provide any port you want
after that run following command
NODE_ENV=production pm2 start app.js -- --prod
it will work perfectly but if you want -i max than.
NODE_ENV=production pm2 start app.js --name "myapp" -i max -- --prod
in the above command if you fase any issue regarding grunt than open tasks/register/prod.js and comment below lines
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.registerTask('prod', [
// 'polyfill:prod', //« Remove this to skip transpilation in production (not recommended)
// 'compileAssets',
// 'babel', //« Remove this to skip transpilation in production (not recommended)
// 'concat',
// 'uglify',
// 'cssmin',
// 'sails-linker:prodJs',
// 'sails-linker:prodStyles',
// 'sails-linker:clientSideTemplates',
]);
};

Answer 6

I have solution without sails.load since I never use it. Edit your config/bootstrap.js to like this:
module.exports.bootstrap = function (cb) {
if(process.argv[2]){
var port = parseInt(process.argv[2]);
sails.config.port = port;
}
cb();
};
then lift your app by node app.js 1234 to make it run on port 1234.
But if you still want to use sails.lift, change process.argv[2] to process.argv[3]. Basically it catch any arguments when you starting application, and change sails.config.port based on your arguments.