demon v0.0.1

demon

demon is for running javascripts in node in the background on linux machines

Usage:

sudo npm install -g demon

From anywhere:

: demon path/to/script.js
Node process running on 11116
: cat ~/.demontmp
11116

.demontmp keeps track of the processes begun by demon. use:

demon kill

to kill all processes begun by demon and to remove ~/.demontmp

Note: demon intentionally runs the risk of a process ending naturally and the pid getting recycled. The user should be the failsafe against blithely running demon kill.

let demon = require('demon')

demon.start('path/to/my/javascript', [some, args, for, child_process.fork], { some : options, for : it }, (err, childProcess) => {
  if(err) console.log('it')
  else console.log(childProcess.pid)
})
demon.kill()  
demon.start('nother/one') <-- also works
demon.start('another', callback) <--also works