easy-fork

Easily fork node process to run scripts concurrently

Why

Sometimes you want to run multiple node processes at once. For example

• Type-checking command like tsc --project src
• Bundler command like parcel src --out-dir build
• Server starting command like onchange build --initial -- node build/start.js

There are several ways to solve this:

• Make npm/yarn scripts and run them independently

  • Probably the "healthy" way. But it is annoying to open terminals and run these command one by one.

• Gulp

  • Using exposed APIs is usually takes more effort than CLI commands.

• command1 & command2 & command3 & ...

  • Sending SIGTERM does not kill all processes.

With easy-fork, you can pass multiple CLI commands to run them concurrently, and now all you have to do is run the script.

Install

$ npm install easy-fork

or

$ yarn add easy-fork

Usage

const fork = require('easy-fork');

fork('tsc --watch --project ./src/client');
fork('tsc --watch --project ./src/server');
fork('parcel serve ./src/client/index.html --out-dir ./build/client');
fork('tcm --watch --camelCase --pattern ./src/client/**/*.scss')
fork('onchange ./build/server --initial -- node ./build/server')

API

easyFork(command)

command

Type: string

Command to run. Must be locally installed node CLI.

License

MIT © Hoishin