That assumes that node itself will never crash, or that your server will never reboot. Just keeping it running isn't the main point though: socket activation i

That assumes that node itself will never crash, or that your server will never reboot. Just keeping it running isn't the main point though: socket activation is great if you want to increase server density. And the whole-system monitoring + resource policies are very nice tools for system administrators. There's a lot more to systemd and node.js than simply running node.