recommencement

Description

Initiate a restart of a node script from the script itself.

How to install

npm install --save recommencement

How to use

At first you have to require this module the well known way:

var recommencement = require("recommencement");

After this step you are able to restart your node script by calling:

recommencement.restart();

In addition you are able to update your npm libraries and restart after an successful update this way:

recommencement.update();

Note

You are not able to kill your restarted process with Ctrl-C after the parent process is terminated, but you can do it with kill {pid of new process}. The new PID will be logged on console!

Have fun...