How to Automatically Update a Fabric Minecraft Server with Node.js

How to Automatically Update a Fabric Minecraft Server with Node.js I run a small modded Minecraft server for me and my friends on a VPS. Every time Minecraft updated, all of my dozen or so mods would have to be manually downloaded, the server had to be stopped, the mods put in the mods folder, and the server would have to be restarted. This worked, but it was repetitive and fragile. So, as any good software engineer does, I decided to spend a lot more time developing an automatic solution to a problem than I would have spent doing it manually. Along the way, I learned a thing or two about APIs, scraping, and designing small automation systems. ...

04 Sep 2025 · 5 min · 909 words