spawn auto restart

Important: Use it for dev only!

It executes a command through spawn and restart the process in case any change has been detected or the child process has crashed.

Installation

Install via npm:

$ npm install spawn-auto-restart

Usage

require('spawn-auto-restart')({
  proc: 'executable path',
  watch: __dirname
});

To enable logs set an environment variable like this:

DEBUG=spawn-auto-restart

advanced args options

• spawn
• chokidar

require('spawn-auto-restart')({
  proc: {
    command: 'executable path',
    // ... any spawn argument
    args: ['--dev'],
    cwd: __dirname
  },
  watch: {
    path: 'file, dir, glob, or array',
    // ... any chokidar argument
    ignored: /[\/\\]\./,
    persistent: true
  }
});

Example

Auto restarting an electron app in development when changes have been applied in the main process.

node DEBUG=spawn-auto-restart restart.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

var join = require('path').join;
var electron = require('electron-prebuilt');


var main = join(__dirname, '../src/browser/main.js');
var watch = join(__dirname, '../src/browser');


require('spawn-auto-restart')({
  proc: {
    command: electron,
    args: main
  },
  watch: watch
});

Changelog

• 3.0.0: Update dependencies to latest versions, set Node 10.13 as minimum supported version.
• 2.0.1: Preserve output colors.
• 2.0.0: Move debug option to env variable.

Contributing

It is required to use editorconfig.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Max Claus Nunes. This software is licensed under the MIT License.