🎲 node-async-exec

A package that runs exec command asynchronously and also changes directory if needed to run commands.

Features

• Asynchronously run a shell command.
• Run a shell command/commands inside a specific directory.
• Uses exec node method and process.chdir under the hood.
• Can be used to build CLI and Node.js based tools.

Install

# install the package
npm install node-async-exec

Usage

• Run a shell command

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
	try {
		await exec({ cmd: `touch example.md` })
	} catch (err) {
		console.log(err);
	}
})()

• Change directory and run a command inside of it

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
	try {
		await exec({
			path: `/Users/saadirfan/GitHub`,
			cmd: `touch example.md`
		})
	} catch (err) {
		console.log(err);
	}
})()

• Change directory and run a number of shell command inside that directory

const exec = require('node-async-exec');

(async () => {
	try {
		const commands = [`git init`, `touch example.md`];
		await exec({
			path: `/Users/saadirfan/GitHub`,
			cmd: commands
		})
	} catch (err) {
		console.log(err);
	}
})()

🔑 License & Conduct

• MIT © Saad Irfan
• Code of Conduct