pgweb-node v1.0.6

Pgweb Node

Run pgweb from NodeJS. Pgweb node bindings and automatic installer.

Programmatic Usage

npm install pgweb-node

const pgweb = require("pgweb-node");

const server = await pgweb.startServer({
  // All the command line parameters that pgweb accepts
  // https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb/wiki/Usage
  host: "localhost",
  user: "postgres",
  listen: 8081,
});

// Sometime later...
server.stop();

Command Line Usage

This is the same as installing pgweb.

npm install -g pgweb-node

# run pgweb on default 8081 port
pgweb --host localhost --user postgres

Motivation

This is useful for times when you want to run pgweb as part of your api server.

Pgweb is automatically downloaded for the target platform and initialized.