Detach nodejs x11 application from the console with JavaScript

Question

While using x11 module for node.js, application must be detached from the console from within the application. It is possible to start node in background with node myapp.js > /dev/null & but how to detach from within the program itself?

Answer 1

I'm author of node-x11, but your questions seems to be generic and not related to x11.

Example where you might want to detach from terminal is implementing xclip in js ( see this discussion )

Lots of possible solutions here tl;dr - if you don't want to detach it from outside with nohup you can use module like daemon