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A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)

MIT License

Created on Sep 27, 2010

Updated on Apr 2, 2026

Stars

13.9k

Forks

938

Watchers

13.9k

Open Issues

342

Repository Health Score

💛

88/100

Good

Overall repository health assessment

Score Breakdown

Activity

Active development - updated this week

30/30

100%

Issues Analytics

61

Total Issues

All time

45

Open

74% of total

16

Closed

Recent Commits

Update colors to maintained version (#1132)

David Hyde•4 years ago

2ba8489View on GitHub

Bump to 4.0.3

Igor Savin•4 years ago

9fde732View on GitHub

Prepare to release 4.0.3

Igor Savin•4 years ago

0ecfa3eView on GitHub

Upgrade Winston (#1128)

Tyler Breisacher•4 years ago

a0fb120View on GitHub

Prepare to release 4.0.2

Igor Savin•4 years ago

980ea04View on GitHub

Pin colors version (#1127)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

b20a9e8View on GitHub

Prepare 4.0.1 for release

Igor Savin•4 years ago

2211e32View on GitHub

Update eventemitter2 (#1116)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

3b3c81cView on GitHub

forever.config Configstore init and usage fixes (#1115)

Andras Katona•4 years ago

6c7f0a5View on GitHub

Prepare 4.0.0 for release

Igor Savin•4 years ago

4705421View on GitHub

Remove y18n due to CVE 2020 7774 part 5 (#1112)

Sam Gilman•4 years ago

35a4062View on GitHub

Move getopts to devDependencies (#1113)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

1f6108eView on GitHub

Replace yargs with getopts (CVE-2020-777) (#1110)

Sam Gilman•4 years ago

aa22041View on GitHub

Update in-range dependencies (#1108)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

ae6d88eView on GitHub

Drop `deep-equal` (#1101)

Federico Brigante•4 years ago

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Community

13,851 stars, 938 forks

23/30

77%

Documentation

Has description, license

15/20

75%

Maintenance

2.5% issue ratio

20/20

100%

Health score is calculated based on activity, community engagement, documentation quality, and maintenance practices

Languages

JavaScript

98.6%

Shell

1.4%

Dependencies25 total

14

Production

11

Development

Production Dependencies (14)

async^1.5.2

cliff^0.1.10

clone^2.1.2

@colors/colors1.5.0

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Languages

JavaScript

98.6%

Shell

1.4%

Issues Analytics

61

Total Issues

All time

45

Open

74% of total

16

Closed

Dependencies25 total

14

Production

11

Development

Production Dependencies (14)

async^1.5.2

cliff^0.1.10

clone^2.1.2

@colors/colors1.5.0

configstore

4.0.0

eventemitter26.4.4

flatiron~0.4.3

forever-monitor^3.0.3

mkdirp^0.5.5

nssocket^0.6.0

object-assign^4.1.1

prettyjson^1.2.2

shush^1.0.0

winston^3.4.0

Development Dependencies (11)

chai^4.2.0

cli-testlab^1.10.0

eslint^5.16.0

eslint-config-prettier^6.11.0

eslint-plugin-prettier^3.1.3

getopts2.3.0

mocha^6.2.2

moment^2.24.0

prettier^1.19.1

request2.88.2

vows0.7.x

foreverv4.0.3

26% of total

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Issues Activity: Last 6 months

Hottest Issues

1

#1077 [node v14.x+] Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency

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open

2

#1056 Error running forever.js on Windows - “'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file”

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5

open

3

#1072 minimist security issue

12

7

open

4

#1106 Update y18n to fix Prototype-Pollution (High) (CVE-2020-7774) #1102

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1

closed

5

#1057 forever start ts-node

5

12

open

Recent Commits

Update colors to maintained version (#1132)

David Hyde•4 years ago

2ba8489View on GitHub

Bump to 4.0.3

Igor Savin•4 years ago

9fde732View on GitHub

Prepare to release 4.0.3

Igor Savin•4 years ago

0ecfa3eView on GitHub

Upgrade Winston (#1128)

Tyler Breisacher•4 years ago

a0fb120View on GitHub

Prepare to release 4.0.2

Igor Savin•4 years ago

980ea04View on GitHub

Pin colors version (#1127)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

b20a9e8View on GitHub

Prepare 4.0.1 for release

Igor Savin•4 years ago

2211e32View on GitHub

Update eventemitter2 (#1116)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

3b3c81cView on GitHub

forever.config Configstore init and usage fixes (#1115)

Andras Katona•4 years ago

6c7f0a5View on GitHub

Prepare 4.0.0 for release

Igor Savin•4 years ago

4705421View on GitHub

Remove y18n due to CVE 2020 7774 part 5 (#1112)

Sam Gilman•4 years ago

35a4062View on GitHub

Move getopts to devDependencies (#1113)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

1f6108eView on GitHub

Replace yargs with getopts (CVE-2020-777) (#1110)

Sam Gilman•4 years ago

aa22041View on GitHub

Update in-range dependencies (#1108)

Igor Savin•4 years ago

ae6d88eView on GitHub

Drop `deep-equal` (#1101)

Federico Brigante•4 years ago

4a404f7View on GitHub

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Top Contributors

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indexzero

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321

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mmalecki

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102

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kibertoad

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AvianFlu

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julianduque

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bmeck

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21

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Tjatse

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tkambler

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kpdecker

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jcrugzz

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Issues Activity: Last 6 months

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