jimbuck / childish-process

child_process for grown-ups

childish-process

A simpler way to call spawn or exec of child_process. Makes it easy to call spawn with custom event-handlers. Makes options easy to template, extend, invoke strategies, generating event-handlers that can notify, for example.

Use

var run = require('childish-process');

• run(command[, options]); calls child_process.spawn
• run(command[, options], callback); calls child_process.exec

The options may include a "childish" key with custom event handlers for any of: "stdout", "stderr", "error", or "close". It's unlikely that node will ever add a childish option to its child_process.

See the handlers function and its defaults for what can be overridden via childish options.

Configuration

The configuration options are getting a huge upgrade, to be documented and probably tested. Meanwhile, example usage can be found in datomiki's gulpfile.js and notifications.json, while gulp-npm-test is an example for code usage.

Dependencies

Unlicensed

This is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more information, see UNLICENSE.