process-launcher

small package for spawning a process, restarting it if it fails and logging its output

usage

const ProcessLauncher = require('process-lancher');
 
let launcher = new ProcessLauncher('/path/to/exec', 
    { // options object, all is optional and with defaults
        processName: 'myProcess',
        restartOnExit: true,
        logger: null,
        processLogger: null,
        logProcess: true
    });
 
// run the process
launcher.run();
 
// if you want to get notified on events, the ProcessLauncher is an EventEmitter
launcher.on('error', err => {
    // do what ever you want
});
 
launcher.on('exit', code => {
    // the library will restart the process (unless you changed 'restartOnExit' to false),
    // but if you want to do anything else you are welcome
});

API reference

ProcessLauncher

ProcessLauncher will launch a given process and will relaunch it when it closed / crashed (by configuration). It will also log all its data to the given logger

Kind: global class

new ProcessLauncher(execPath, options)

Creates an instance of ProcessLauncher

Param	Description
execPath	mandatory, the full path to the exec to run, including the exec name The following parameters are part of the options object and are not mandatory
options
logger	a logger to use in order to logs events in the library. If none is passed logs will not go out.
processName	the processName that will be showed in the logs
processLogger	if you wish to have a separate logger for the logs of the launched process, pass it here, otherwise it will use the 'logger' parameter. If none was passed in the logger as well no logs will go out
restartOnExist	whether to restart the process when it ends. Default true.
logProcess	whether to log the launched process messages. Default true.