nappd-cli

NodeJs package command line interface for nappd. It allows you to start, stop and manage NodeJS apps, which are running in the background as a daemon, straight out of your terminal.

Installation

npm install -g nappd-cli

or

npm install -g git+https://github.com/remolueoend/nappd-cli.git

Usage

Registration

nappd register appName, executablePath [, outputPath]

• appName Required. The identifier of the app.
• executablePath Required. The path to the *.js-file of you app.
• outputPath Optional. Filepath to redirect the app's stdout/stderr stream to.

Registers a new app in the global directory. Registering an app makes it a lot easier to manage it in the future: To remove an app from the global directory, use nappd unregister appName, providing the app's identifier as appName.

The global app directory is located in the NodeJs package itself. If nappd-cli gets uninstalled or reinstalled, the global directory gets lost too!

Start a daemon

To startup a daemon, use the command:

nappd start appName [, args...]

• appName Required. The identifier of the app to start.
• args... Optional. Single or multiple argument(s) which will be forwarded to the app.

Currently, nappd only allows starting registered apps. Starting an app by providing its executabyle path will be supported in the future.

Get a daemon's status

To check weather a daemon is running or not, use the command nappd status appName, providing the app's identifier as appName.

Stop a daemon

To stop a running daemon, simply use nappd stop appName.

• appName Required. The identifier of the app to stop.

Killing daemons is not supported yet. This feature will be added in the future.

Restarting a daemon

nappd restart appName [, args...]

• appName Required. The identifier of the app to restart.
• args... Optional. Arguments to forward to the app.

Restarts a running daemon.