📃 Table of contents

• Usage
• API
  • Types
    • ExecResult
    • ExecCallback
  • Functions
    • executeSync()
    • executeCallback()
    • execute()
    • executeParallel(...commands)
    • executeParallel(commands)
• Examples
• Changelog
• License
• Related
• Author

🕵🏼 Usage

Install it by executing:

npm i '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

🤹🏼 API

The API exposes two types:

• ExecResult
• ExecCallback

Types

ExecResult

A simple object structured as:

{ 
  error: string,
  output: string
}

ExecCallback

A callback with the method signature of:

type ExecCallback = (result: ExecResult) => void

Functions

executeSync(command: string): ExecResult

Synchronously executes the specified command.

command - Command to execute.

Will throw an error if no command is provided.
Returns the ExecResult object with standard and error outputs.

import { executeSync } from '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

const result = executeSync('dir /b')

if (result.error) {
  console.error(result.error) // log the error
} else {
  console.log(result.output) // log the contents of the directory
}

executeCallback(command: string, callback: ExecCallback): void

Asynchronously, with a callback executes the specified command.

command - Command to execute.
callback - The function to call after the command is executed.

Will throw an error if no command is provided.

import { executeCallback } from '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

executeCallback('node --version', (result) => {
  if (result.error) {
    console.error(result.error) // log the error
  } else {
    console.log(result.output) // log Node version
  }
})

execute(command: string): Promise<string>

Asynchronously executes the specified command.

command - Command to execute.

Will throw an error if no command is provided.
Returns the standard output.

import { execute } from '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

try {
  const result: string = await execute('npm --version')

  console.log(result) // log NPM version
} catch(exp) {
  console.error(exp) // log the error
}

executeParallel(...commands: string[]): Promise<string[]>;

Asynchronously and in parallel executes the specified commands.

commands - Commands to execute, rest string parameters, e.g. executeParallel('command-one', 'command-two', 'command-three').

Will throw an error if any of the commands causes an error.
Returns the standard output of each command.

import { executeParallel } from '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

try {
  const results: string[] = await executeParallel('npm --version', 'node --version', 'npm pack')
  console.log(results) // log the results which is a string array
} catch(exp) {
  console.error(exp) // log the error
}

executeParallel(commands: string[]): Promise<string[]>

Asynchronously and in parallel executes the specified commands.

commands - Commands to execute, a string array, e.g. executeParallel(['command-one', 'command-two', 'command-three']).

Will throw an error if any of the commands causes an error.
Returns the standard output of each command.

import { executeParallel } from '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

try {
 const results: string[] = executeParallel(['npm --version', 'node --version', 'npm pack'])
  console.log(results) // log the results which is a string array
} catch(exp) {
  console.error(exp) // log the error
}

✨ Examples

example.ts

import { executeParallel } from '@igor.dvlpr/simple-exec'

const result: string[] = await executeParallel([
  'npm --version',
  'node --version',
  'npm --version'
]) // will log ['<npm version>', '<Node version>', '<npm version>']
  // e.g. [ '10.8.2', 'v22.5.1', '10.8.2' ]

📝 Changelog

📑 The changelog is available here: CHANGELOG.md.

🪪 License

Licensed under the MIT license which is available here, MIT license.

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👨🏻‍💻 Author

Created by Igor Dimitrijević (@igorskyflyer).