Cach
A simple program to restart your NodeJS app when it exits with an error. Useful for Discord bots.
Installation
For global use:
$ npm install -g cach
For local use:
$ npm install --save cach
Usage
On the command line:
$ cach
Running `npm start`...
$ cach ember serve
Running `ember serve`...
In a script:
var cach = ; // Runs npm start with cach; // Runs ember serve with cach; // Runs npm test with cach,// and also logs messages;
Testing
$ git clone https://github.com/bottza/cach
Cloning into 'cach'...
remote: Counting objects: 37, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (32/32), done.
remote: Total 37 (delta 13), reused 23 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (37/37), done.
$ cd cach
$ npm test
> cach@1.0.0 test C:\Programming\cach
> ava
4 tests passed
Comparison to PM2
Cach:
$ cach
Running `npm start`...
Ok. How do I stop it? Ctrl-C
is intuitive...
^C
$
It worked!!!!
PM2:
$ pm2 start node main.js
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=C:\Users\archmaster\.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
[PM2] Starting D:\Documents\Programmimg\BootBot\main.js in fork_mode (1 instance)
[PM2] Done.
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬───────────┬───────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼───────────┼───────┼──────────┤
│ main │ 0 │ fork │ 24268 │ online │ 0 │ 0s │ 0% │ 29.0 MB │ felix │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴───────────┴───────┴──────────┘
Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
Wait AAAAAAAHHH so confusing! How do I know what's happening? How do I even stop it? It's not running in my terminal so I can't do Ctrl-C
! Reads help. Sooo...
$ pm2 stop 0
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [0](ids: 0)
[PM2] [node](0) ✓
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬─────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬────────┬───────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼──────┼─────┼─────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼────────┼───────┼──────────┤
│ node │ 0 │ fork │ 0 │ stopped │ 0 │ 0 │ 0% │ 0 B │ felix │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴─────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴────────┴───────┴──────────┘
Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
Well... it's stopped... but it's still showing up! Imma install cach
.