wait-port
v1.1.0
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Utility to wait for a TCP port to open.
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wait-port
Simple binary to wait for a port to open. Useful when writing scripts which need to wait for a server to be available.
- Creating
docker-compose
commands which wait for servers to start - Wait for an HTTP endpoint to successfully respond
- Wait for DNS records to be resolvable
- Wait for application servers to start
Installation
Install globally with npm
:
$ npm install -g wait-port
If installing locally, run the binary from the local node modules binary folder:
$ npm install wait-port
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$ ./node_modules/.bin/wait-port 8080
Waiting for localhost:8080.....
Connected!
Ideally, Node LTS should be used however this package is tested successfully with Node.js 10 and upwards.
Please avoid using version 0.2.13 - this incorrectly included a breaking change. Use 0.2.14 if you need compatibility with Node 8, or 0.3.0 or upwards otherwise.
Usage
To wait indefinitely for a port to open, just use:
$ wait-port localhost:3000
To wait for a port to open, but limit to a certain timeout, use:
$ wait-port -t 10000 localhost:3000
To wait for an HTTP endpoint to respond with a 200 class status code, include the http://
protocol:
$ wait-port http://:3000/healthcheck
Parameters
The following parameters are accepted:
| Parameter | Usage |
|-----------|-------|
| <target>
| Required. The target to test for. Can be just a port, a colon and port (as one would use with httpie or host and port. Examples: 8080
, :3000
, 127.0.0.1:443
. |
| --output, -o
| Optional. Output style to use. Can be dots
(default) or silent
(no output). |
| --timeout, -t
| Optional. Timeout (in milliseconds). |
| --wait-for-dns
| Optional. Do not error if the response is ENOTFOUND
, just keep on waiting (useful if you are waiting for a DNS record to also be created). |
Error Codes
The following error codes are returned:
| Code | Meaning |
|------|---------|
| 0
| The specified port on the host is accepting connections. |
| 1
| A timeout occurred waiting for the port to open. |
| 2
| An unknown error occurred waiting for the port to open. The program cannot establish whether the port is open or not. |
| 3
| The address cannot be found (e.g. no DNS entry, or unresolvable). |
| 4
| The target (host and port) is invalid. |
API
You can use wait-port
programmatically:
const waitPort = require('wait-port');
const params = {
host: 'google.com',
port: 443,
};
waitPort(params)
.then(({ open, ipVersion }) => {
if (open) console.log(`The port is now open on IPv${ipVersion}!`);
else console.log('The port did not open before the timeout...');
})
.catch((err) => {
console.err(`An unknown error occured while waiting for the port: ${err}`);
});
The CLI is a very shallow wrapper around this function. The params
object takes the following parameters:
| CLI Parameter | API Parameter | Notes |
|---------------|---------------|-------|
| <target>
| host
| Optional. Defaults to localhost
. |
| <target>
| port
| Required. Port to wait for. |
| --output
| output
| Optional. Defaults to dots
. Output style to use. silent
also accepted. |
| --timeout, -t
| timeout
| Optional. Defaults to 0
. Timeout (in milliseconds). If 0
, then the operation will never timeout. |
| --wait-for-dns
| waitForDns
| Optional. Defaults to false
. |
Developer Guide
This module uses:
| Name | Usage |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| chalk
| Terminal output styling. |
| commander.js
| Utility for building commandline apps. |
| debug
| Utility for debug output. |
| mocha
/ nyc
| Test runner / coverage. |
Debugging
This module use debug
for debug output. Set DEBUG=wait-port
to see detailed diagnostic information:
DEBUG=wait-port wait-for -t 10000 localhost:6234
This will also work for any code which uses the API.
Testing
Run unit tests with npm test
. Coverage is reported to artifacts/coverage
.
Debug unit tests with npm run debug
. Add a debugger
statement to the line you are interested in, and consider limiting scope with .only
.
Run tests continuously, watching source with npm run test:watch
.
Testing the CLI
Don't install the package to test the CLI. Instead, in the project folder run npm link
. Now go to whatever folder you want to use the module in and run npm link wait-port
. It will symlink the package and binary. See npm link
for more details.
Manpage
Installing the CLI will install the manpage. The manpage is at ./man/wait-port.1
. After updating the page, test it with man ./man/wait-port.1
before publishing, as the format can be tricky to work with.
Releasing
Kick out a new release with:
npm run release
git push --follow-tags
npm publish
standard-version
is used to manage version numbers and the CHANGELOG.md
file.
CI/CD
CI/CD runs as a set of GitHub actions. There are two pipelines:
- Validate Pull Request - confirms that a PR meets the required standardsd
- Release Please - prepares changelogs and release PRs, and publishes to NPM
Timeouts
The timeout option for waitPort
is used terminate attempts to open the socket after a certain amount of time has passed. Please note that operations can take significantly longer than the timeout. For example:
const promise = waitPort({ port: 9000, interval: 10000 }, 2000);
In this case, the socket will only attempt to connect every ten seconds. So on the first iteration, the timeout is not reached, then another iteration will be scheduled for after ten seconds, meaning the timeout will happen eight seconds later than one might expect.
The waitPort
promise may take up to interval
milliseconds greater than timeout
to resolve.