Some issues: keep-alive, silence when the application fails to start, no specification of the TOML file and what it does, and not clear how to use environment variables

[JJ]

Well, that's pretty much it. Maybe a bit of more explanation:

• This error when running

  apm: error: required flag --keep-alive not provided, try --help

• Specify in documentation what, if anything, is needed to include in the config.toml file

• Do you always have to start the server?

• How can I add environment variables? Are they sent through to the running process?

• Not clear if the program has failed to start. I have to use apm status to find out something.

[MateusDantas]

• I didn't quite understand the first issue, are you saying that APM is requiring you to set --keep-alive flag?
• I'm in the process of improving the documentation as we speak. Thanks for the feedback.
• Yes, you always have to start the server. I will also add it to the documentation.
• Environment variables are supposed to be sent through the running process. So you can pass new environment variables ENV_1=xxx ENV_2=yyy apm bin ....
• You are right, I will make it more verbose when trying to run new processes.

Thank you for your feedback. Based on it, I have a couple of suggestions:

• Let APM start processes through a JSON file. This JSON file will contain a list of processes, with some info, such as environment variables, flags, keep-alive and other data necessary to run it.
• Make APM more verbose by adding more information when trying to start, stop, restart new processes.

I'm already working on improving the documentation, I will send a PR really soon.

If you have any more suggestions, please let me know.

[MateusDantas]

• Investigate possible error with keep-alive flag
• Improve documentation to cover more scenarios PR [documentation] Explain how to start a new application #11
• Make APM more verbose to the user
• Add a way to explicitly set environment variables when starting processes
• Let APM start processes from a structured json file

Maybe the last two tasks can be merged into one, but I will keep them in the meantime so I can have a more clear view of what needs to be done.