ezpawn v1.0.6

EZpawn

Easy process spawning.

Example

const EZpawn = require("ezpawn")
(async () => {
  try {
    const {out, err} = await EZpawn.spawn("echo", ["hi", "there"])
    console.log("Process output:", out.toString(), err.toString())
  } catch(error) {
    if(!(error instanceof EZpawn.SpawnError)) throw error
    const {out, err} = error
    console.log(`An error occurred after this output: ${out.toString()}`)
  }
})()

Public API

SpawnResult

The result of a spawned child process.

\ out

Buffer of the standard output stream.

\ err

Buffer of the standard error stream.

class EZpawn

The object this module exports.

class SpawnError extends Error

Is: SpawnResult\ Extended by: SignalExit, NonZeroExit

An error of a spawned child process. Displays the SpawnResult.err as a string in the error message.

class SignalExit extends EZpawn.SpawnError

The spawned child process exited because of a signal.

\ signal

The signal.

class NonZeroExit extends EZpawn.SpawnError

The spawned process exited with a non-zero exit code.

\ code

The exit code.

async spawn(command, args, options)

Arguments are passed to require("child_process").spawn.

Resolves to: \\ Rejects to: \ if the process exits after receiving a signal\ Rejects to: \ if the process exits with a non-zero exit code.