end-child-processes v2.0.0

End-Child-Processes

This library ends all child processes spawned by the current process, including nested child processes. The current process itself remains unaffected.

Installation

npm install --save end-child-processes

Usage

import { endChildProcesses } from "end-child-processes"

// spawn a long-running subprocess
import * as childProcess from "child_process"
childProcess.exec("node -e 'while (true) {}'")

// end all running subprocesses spawned by this program
await endChildProcesses()

Related work

Dependent on your use case, these other libraries that might also be a good fit for you:

• ps-tree: displays information about all running subprocesses
• tree-kill: ends all processes in the process tree, including the current process
• @jub3i/tree-kill: ends all processes in the process tree, including the current process