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@jsdevtools/ez-spawn

Spawn child processes synchronously or asynchronously with simple, consistent API.

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Simple, consistent sync or async process spawning

Examples

run a command and wait for it to finish$ const spawn = require('@jsdevtools/ez-spawn'); const result = spawn.sync('ls', ['-la']);

execute a program and capture output$ const spawn = require('@jsdevtools/ez-spawn'); const result = spawn.sync('npm', ['list']); console.log(result.stdout);

run a process asynchronously with a callback

$ const spawn = require('@jsdevtools/ez-spawn'); spawn('npm', ['install'], (error, result) => { if (!error) console.log(result.stdout); });

spawn a process and handle errors

$ const spawn = require('@jsdevtools/ez-spawn'); spawn.sync('git', ['clone', 'repo.git']).then(result => console.log('done')).catch(err => console.error(err));

run shell commands from node code$ const spawn = require('@jsdevtools/ez-spawn'); const result = spawn.sync('sh', ['-c', 'echo hello && date']);