tcp-background-notifier - npm Package Compare versions

Comparing version 0.1.5 to 0.1.6

index.js

 exports.start = () => {
-    var cmd = require("node-cmd");
+    var background = require('background-process');
     var path = require("path");
-    cmd.run("node " + path.join(__dirname, "starter.js"));
+    return background.start(path.join(__dirname, 'backgroundtask.js'));
 }

package.json

 {
     "name": "tcp-background-notifier",
-    "version": "0.1.5",
+    "version": "0.1.6",
     "description": "A package that starts a node.exe background instance with an tcp server to create notifications on port 7070",
@@ -21,5 +21,4 @@ "main": "index.js",
         "background-process": "^1.0.0",
-        "node-cmd": "^3.0.0",
         "node-notifier": "^8.0.0"
     }
 }

readme.md

 # tcp-background-notifier
 
-tcp-background-notifier is a npm package that runs a tcp server as a new background task to recive reqests on port 7070 and creates a windows or mac notification. It uses [background-process](https://www.npmjs.com/package/background-process), [node-cmd](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-cmd) and [node-notifier](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-notifier).
+tcp-background-notifier is a npm package that runs a tcp server as a new background task to recive reqests on port 7070 and creates a windows or mac notification. It uses [background-process](https://www.npmjs.com/package/background-process) and [node-notifier](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-notifier).
 
@@ -19,3 +19,3 @@ ## Installation
 
-tcpnotifier.start(); # starts the tcp server to listen on port 7070
+const pid = tcpnotifier.start(); # starts the tcp server to listen on port 7070 and returns the PID(ProcessID)
 ```
@@ -46,2 +46,3 @@ Send following json array over tcp to port **7070** and the ip adress from the machine you've started the node js code from to create a notification:
 ```
+This library also works with [electron](https://www.electronjs.org/). Just implement the library as show in the first example just after the electron imports.
 
@@ -48,0 +49,0 @@ ## Donations

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  node-cmd@^3.0.0

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  node-cmd@3.0.0
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