node-graceful

node-graceful

node-graceful is a small helper module without dependencies that aims to ease graceful exit of a complex node program including async waiting of multiple independent modules.

Installation: npm i -S node-graceful

Quick example

const Graceful = require('node-graceful');
 
Graceful.on('exit', (done, event, signal) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
        console.log(`Received ${signal} - Exiting gracefully`)
        done()
    }, 1000);
})

//  Gracefull will wait untill all listeners has finished
Graceful.on('exit', () => {
       console.log("Another independant listener!");
       return Promise.resolve('A promise to be waited on before dying');
    });

The module is written in Node 4.x flavored es6. To get the es5 transpiled version use require('node-graceful/es5')

Graceful

Graceful.on({String} signal, {Function} listener [, {Boolean} deadly])

Add a listener to a given signal. Any signal can be listened on in the addition of exit event that will be triggered by all "Deadly events". Graceful listens on every signal only once and propagate the event to its listeners

Default Deadly events: SIGTERM SIGINT SIGBREAK SIGHUP

Options

• signal - a string representing the signal name. this will be used directly as the event name on process object. Common signals can be found here. its better to use the built in exit event as it catches all events that induce process exit.
• listener(done, event, signal) - listener function
  • done - callback that should be called once all exiting tasks were completed
  • event - if an event was provided by the process it will be provided as second argument else undefined
  • signal - the signal that triggered the exit.example: 'SIGTERM'
  **note: Promise can be returned instead of calling done
• deadly - (options) boolean indicating weather this should be considered a process ending event. e.g. should exit event should be called due to this event. default: false.

Return value

the method returns a function that when invoked, removes the listener. the function is a shorthand for .off method

example

const server = require('http').createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.write('ok');
    res.end()
})

Graceful.on('exit', (done, event, signal) => {
    console.log("Received exit signal");
    server.close(() => {
        console.log("Closed all connection. safe to exit");
        done()    
    })
})

// use the return value to remove listener
const removeListener = Graceful.on('exit', () => {})
removeListener(); // listener was removed

Graceful.off({String} signal, {Function} listener)

Remove listener.

example

const gracefulExit = () => {
    console.log("exiting!");
}

// add listener
let removeListener = Graceful.on('SIGTERM', gracefulExit);

// remove listener
Graceful.off('SIGTERM', gracefulExit);

// or use return value of on
removeListener();

Graceful.clear({String} [signal])

Remove all listeners of a given signal or all listeners of all signals.

• signal - (optional) signal to be cleared from all of its listeners. if no signal is provided all listeners for all signals are cleared effectively resetting the module.

example

const gracefulExit = () => {
    console.log("exiting!");
}

// add listener
Graceful.on('exit', () => {
       console.log("Received some exit signal!");
       return Promise.resolve("A promise to be waited on before dying");
    });
    
Graceful.on('exit', (done) => {
       console.log("Another listener");
       done();
    });

// remove all listener
Graceful.clear('exit');

// removes ALL listeners of ALL signals
// Graceful.clear();

Graceful.exit({Number} [code], {String} [signal])

Trigger graceful process exit. This method is meant to be a substitute command for process.exit() to allow other modules to exit gracefully in case of error.

• code - (optional) exit code to be used. default - process.exitCode
• signal - (optional) signal to be simulating for listeners. default - SIGTERM

example

server.listen(3333)
        .on('listening', function () {
            console.log('Yay!')
        })
        .on('error', function (err) {
            if (err.code == 'EADDRINUSE') {
                console.error("Damn, Port is already in use...");
                Graceful.exit();
            }
        });

// exit code and signal can be specified
// Graceful.exit(1, 'SIGINT')

Options

Options are global and shared, any change will override previous values.

Graceful.exitOnDouble = true {Boolean}

Whether to exit immediately when a second deadly event is received, For example when Ctrl-C is pressed twice etc.. When exiting due to double event, exit code will be process.exitCode or 1 (necessarily a non-zero)

Graceful.timeout = 30000 {Number}

Maximum time to wait for exit listeners in ms. After exceeding the time, the process will force exit and the exit code will be process.exitCode or 1 (necessarily a non-zero)

Setting the timeout to 0 will disable timeout functionality (will wait indefinitely)

exitCode

Graceful will obey process.exitCode property value when exiting apart from forced exit cases where the exit code must be non-zero.