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Demonize

Demonize / Daemonize With Node.js

This library will demonize a program and return the child process. It can also create a standalone demonizable script that can be started just like a bash script ./demon.js

Examples

const Demonize = require('demonize');

const options = {
	arg: 'server.js',
	env: { PORT: 8000 },
	err: __dirname + '/out.log',
	out: __dirname + '/out.log'
};

const child = await Demonize.it(options);
console.log(child);

const Demonize = require('demonize');

const options = {
	env: { PORT: 8000 },
	arg: ['server.js'],
	err: __dirname + '/out.log',
	out: __dirname + '/out.log',

	fd: '/Path/To/Add/Generated/demon.js'
};

await Demonize.generate(options);
console.log('Created standalone demonize script');

API

Demonize.it - options: Object required
Demonize.generate - options: Object required

Options

The same options that are available to the Node.js ChildProcess.spawn are also available as options.

arg: String || Array A string or array of arguments. Alias for args.
env: Object (Defaults {})
cmd: String The path to the executable (Default process.execPath)
cwd: String The path to the current working directory (Default process.cwd())
out: String The path to a file /path/out.log or ignore (Defaults to ignore)
err: String The path to a file /path/err.log or ignore (Defaults to ignore)
fd: String The path to output a generated demon file (Default ./demon.js)