Exec : display stdout “live”

Question

I have this simple script :

var exec = require(\'child_process\').exec;

exec(\'coffee -cw my_file.coffee\', function(error, stdout, stderr) {
    console.lo         


        

Answer 1

I have found it helpful to add a custom exec script to my utilities that do this.

utilities.js

const { exec } = require('child_process')

module.exports.exec = (command) => {
  const process = exec(command)

  process.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
    console.log('stdout: ' + data.toString())
  })

  process.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
    console.log('stderr: ' + data.toString())
  })

  process.on('exit', (code) => {
    console.log('child process exited with code ' + code.toString())
  })
}

app.js

const { exec } = require('./utilities.js')

exec('coffee -cw my_file.coffee')