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Executes npm commands within a child_process spawn in order to prevent npm to take too much memory
Executes npm within a child_process spawn in order to prevent npm to take too much memory in the current one.
This module has been created to free the Kevoree Node.js runtime from npm's heavy memory usage.
** :warning: This module needs to be able to access the npm
executable in the PATH (if you have npm installed globally, then it should be ok)**
npm i exec-npm --save
var execNpm = require('exec-npm');
// arguments to give to npm client
// this is equivalent to a call to:
// $ cd /where/to/install/modules
// $ npm install minimist async express
var cmd = [ 'install', 'minimist', 'async', 'express', '--prefix=/where/to/install/modules' ];
execNpm(cmd, function (err) {
if (err) {
console.log('Something went wrong: '+err.message);
} else {
console.log('Success');
}
});
NB. When you specify a
prefix
,npm
will always append to it thenode_modules
folder.
execNpm(args, options, callback): Function
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Executes npm commands within a child_process spawn in order to prevent npm to take too much memory
The npm package exec-npm receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, exec-npm popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that exec-npm demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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