call-bash

call-bash

A simple utility for using child_process.spawn inside of a Promise wrapper.

Allows for the await callBash('npm init -y') pattern, initially developed to play nice with the ora package, i.e.:

const spinner = ora('Waiting...').start();
await callBash('sleep 1');
spinner.succeed('All done!');

Will call bash (non-blocking) and run the spinner for 1 second, then exit.

const spinner = ora('Waiting...');
await callBashSequential([
    'echo "Hello"',
    'echo "World"'
]);
spinner.succeed('All done!');

Outputs:

"Hello"
"World"
✔ All done!

API

const {
    callBash,
    callBashSequential
} = require('call-bash');