child_process-remote

Motivation

Execute a process through a remote endoint

API

const net = require('net');
const Server = require('child_process-remote/server');

var server = net.createServer(Server);
server.listen(8080, function() {
  console.log("Server is now ready");
});

//assume server is running 
const net   = require('net');
const spawn = require('child_process-remote/spawn')(net.connect(8080));

var version = '';
var child = spawn('node', ['-v']);
child.stdout.on('data', function(line) {
  version = line;
})

child.on('close', function(exit) {
  console.log('All done, version is %s , exit code is %d', version, exit);
});

Credits

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