kid_process v0.5.4

kid_process

Deal with child_process like you would a kid.

##Highlights 1. Forget about disconnect, error, close, and exit. Listen for terminated instead. 2. error events are ignored rather than exiting your parent process. 3. Same interface as spawn and fork. If your command ends in .js, then fork is used. 4. The kill method does nothing once an event from item 1 is emitted. This is a good idea because kill can kill another process with the same pid when called after a child_process has ended!

##Example

var kid = require('kid_process').play('myScript.js');
kid.on('terminated', function(code){
  console.log('woops.  Something happened and myScript is no longer running :(');
  kid.kill();//does nothing
});
kid.send({hello:'world'});

##Idiosyncracies

• If the command ends in ".js", then fork is used instead of spawn. In this case, the message event is listened for and emitted. Additionally, disconnect and send are available as methods.