spawn-in-parallel

Spawn your development tasks in parallel. When you kill your script, the spawned processes also die. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. This makes use of Node.js and child_process.spawn with helpful defaults.

Usage

Let's say you have two things you want spinning when you're in development.

hugo server -D -p 3000

npx webpack --config webpack.development.js --watch

Make a scripts/development file like this.

Simple...

#!/usr/bin/env node
require('@ryanburnette/spawn-in-parallel')([
  'hugo server -D -p 3000',
   'npx webpack --config webpack.development.js --watch'
]);

This demonstrates all the available options...

#!/usr/bin/env node
require('@ryanburnette/spawn-in-parallel')([
  'hugo server -D -p 3000',
  {
    cmd: 'npx webpack --config webpack.development.js --watch',
    opts: {
      // per cmd opts for spawn here
    }
  } 
], {
  // put custom opts for spawn here
});

Make it executable.

chmod +x scripts/development

Get to work.

scripts/development