Spawner

Intro

A fluent and friendly wrapper for Node's Child Process spawning stuff.

The Code

To install

npm install spawner

In your javascript file.

var spawner = require('spawner');

API

.withArguments( array )

spawner()
  .withArguments(['-a', 'hello'])

Set the arguments to be passed to the executable

.inWorkingDirectory( path )

spawner()
  .withArguments( args )
  .inWorkingDirectory('/path/to/wd')

Defines the working directory for the process to be spawned in.

.onStdout( callback )

spawner()
  .onStdout( callback )

callback gets a stream from the process stdout. By default it is logged to the console.

.onStderr( callback )

spawner() .onStderr( callback )

callback gets a stream from the process stderr. By default it is logged to the console.

.spawn(pathToExecutable, callback)

spawner() .withArguments( args ) .inWorkingDirectory( folder ) .spawn( 'node' , function(err){

    // err = process exit code.

 })

Licence

MIT