Running in daemon-less (foreground) mode

Create a config with:

# filename: server.conf
daemon off;

Run:

nginx -c "server.conf"

Minimum Config

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daemon off;  # only for dev mode
events {}

http {
    server {
        listen       8888;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        }
    }
}