Tiny process execution for humans — a better child_process

[!WARNING] This package is still a work in progress.

Check out execa for more features.

Features

• Outputs combined result of stdout and stderr, similar to what you get in terminals
• Outputs lines
• No dependencies

Install

npm install nano-spawn

Usage

import $ from 'nano-spawn';

const result = await $('echo', ['🦄']);

console.log(result.exitCode);
//=> 0

import $ from 'nano-spawn';

for await (const line of $('ls', ['--oneline'])) {
    console.log(line);
}
//=> index.d.ts
//=> index.js
//=> …

API

See the types for now.

Limitations

• It does not handle binary output. Use execa for that.

Related

• execa - Process execution for humans
• unicorn-magic - Slightly improved child_process#execFile