spawndamnit

Take care of your spawn()

Features

• Returns an await-able promise
• Collects stdout and stderr buffers
• Emits events "stdout" and "stderr"
• Automatically kills all spawn processes when parent process dies

Installation

yarn add spawndamnit

Usage

Basic:

const spawn = require('spawndamnit');

async function main() {
  let child = spawn('npm', ['star', 'spawndamnit']);

  child.on('stdout', data => console.log(data.toString()));
  child.on('stderr', data => console.error(data.toString()));

  let { code, stdout, stderr } = await child;

  console.log(code === 0 ? 'success' : 'error');
}