tm-fork-ipcbus

Node fork inter process communication bus. Allow communucation between parent and child processes in async request/response way.

Installation

npm install tm-fork-ipcbus

Test

• npm test
• npm run test: coverage Tests with a coverage report.

Available options

You can pass options with an options object to the constructor.

const IpcBus = require('tm-fork-ipcbus');

const ipc = new IpcBus(options);

• requestTimeout Timeot in msecs for requests(default 5000 msecs).
• process For parent process it should be a link to the child process. For child processes this option should be omitted.

Methods

• request
• response
• event
• task
• message

Events.

Each bus instance is an event emitter with the following events:

• request
• response
• event
• task
• message
• invalidMessage