foreground-child
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Run a child as if it's the foreground process. Give it stdio. Exit when it exits.
The foreground-child npm package is used to run a child process in the foreground, ensuring that signals such as SIGINT, SIGTERM, and exit codes are properly forwarded from the child process to the parent. This is particularly useful when you want to ensure that a child process is treated as if it were the main process, especially in the context of command-line tools and scripts.
Running a child process in the foreground
This feature allows you to run a child process as if it were the main process. The code sample demonstrates how to use foreground-child to run a Node.js script in the foreground.
const foregroundChild = require('foreground-child');
const cmd = 'node';
const args = ['my-script.js'];
foregroundChild(cmd, args);cross-spawn is a cross-platform solution for spawning child processes with support for handling command line arguments properly. It is similar to foreground-child in that it deals with child processes, but it does not specifically focus on running them in the foreground.
execa is a wrapper for child_process methods that provides a more user-friendly API. It supports synchronous and asynchronous execution of child processes and also allows for running processes in the foreground, similar to foreground-child, but with additional features such as promise support and result parsing.
child-process-promise provides promise-based wrappers for the child_process module. While it simplifies working with asynchronous child processes, it does not have a specific focus on running child processes in the foreground like foreground-child does.
Run a child as if it's the foreground process. Give it stdio. Exit when it exits.
Mostly this module is here to support some use cases around wrapping child processes for test coverage and such.
var foreground = require('foreground-child')
// cats out this file
var child = foreground('cat', [__filename])
// At this point, it's best to just do nothing else.
// return or whatever.
// If the child gets a signal, or just exits, then this
// parent process will exit in the same way.
A callback can optionally be provided, if you want to perform an action before your foreground-child exits:
var child = foreground('cat', [__filename], function (done) {
// perform an action.
return done()
})
v1.3.0
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Run a child as if it's the foreground process. Give it stdio. Exit when it exits.
The npm package foreground-child receives a total of 33,124,983 weekly downloads. As such, foreground-child popularity was classified as popular.
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