My multi-process node.js project setup

docker-compose.yml

# I run the other services I need (database, redis, etc.) using Docker
# and I orchestrate them with this docker-compose.yml file.

version: '2'

services:

  data:
    image: busybox
    volumes:
      - rethinkdb:/data

  rethinkdb:
    image: rethinkdb:2.3.5
    depends_on:
      - data
    volumes_from:
      - data
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 28015:28015

  redis:
    image: redis:3.0.7-alpine
    ports:
      - 6379:6379

volumes:
  rethinkdb:

processes.yml

apps:
  - script: ./api/index.js
    name: api
    watch: true
    ignore_watch:
      # in each app, I ignore the files of other apps so that changes to one
      # don't trigger unnecesarry restarts in others
      - .git/**/*
      - ./sockets/**/*
      - ./queue/**/*
      - ./admin/**/*
    env:
      NODE_ENV: development

  - script: ./sockets/index.js
    name: sockets
    watch: true
    ignore_watch:
      - .git/**/*
      - ./queue/**/*
      - ./api/**/*
      - ./admin/**/*
    env:
      NODE_ENV: development
      DEBUG: socket.io:*,sockets

  - script: ./queue/index.js
    name: queue
    watch: true
    env:
      NODE_ENV: development
      DEBUG: queue
    ignore_watch:
      - .git/**/*
      - ./sockets/**/*
      - ./api/**/*
      - ./admin/**/*
      - ./queue/node_modules/kue/**/*

  - script: ./admin/index.js
    name: admin
    watch: true
    cwd: ./admin/
    env:
      NODE_ENV: development
    ignore_watch:
      - .git/**/*
      - ./sockets/**/*
      - ./api/**/*
      - ./queue/**/*
      - app/**/*
      # here I ignore the app/ folder because this is a 
      # front-end application and I don't want to restart the node process.