process-launcher v0.2.1

process-launcher

small package for spawning a process, restarting it if it fails and logging its output

usage

const ProcessLauncher = require('process-lancher');

let launcher = new ProcessLauncher('/path/to/exec', 
    { // options object, all is optional and with defaults
        processName: 'myProcess',
        restartOnExit: true,
        logger: null,
        processLogger: null,
        logProcess: true
    });

// run the process
launcher.run();

// if you want to get notified on events, the ProcessLauncher is an EventEmitter
launcher.on('error', err => {
    // do what ever you want
});

launcher.on('exit', code => {
    // the library will restart the process (unless you changed 'restartOnExit' to false),
    // but if you want to do anything else you are welcome
});

API reference

ProcessLauncher

ProcessLauncher will launch a given process and will relaunch it when it closed / crashed (by configuration). It will also log all its data to the given logger

Kind: global class

new ProcessLauncher(execPath, options)

Creates an instance of ProcessLauncher