How to detach a spawned child process in a Node.js script?

Question

Intent: call an external application with specified arguments, and exit script.

The following script does not work as it should:

 #!/usr/bin/node
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Answer 1

My solution to this problem:

app.js

require('./spawn.js')('node worker.js');

spawn.js

module.exports = function( command ) {
    require('child_process').fork('./spawner.js', [command]); 
};

spawner.js

require('child_process').exec(
    'start cmd.exe @cmd /k "' + process.argv[2] + '"', 
    function(){}
);
process.abort(0);