Looking to spawn a child process from node.js and monitor its stdout before closing the pipe to terminate the node process.
Here's my base code snippet that is currently not ending the node process:
const childProcess = require("child_process");
const child = childProcess.spawn("httpserver");
child.stdout.on("data", (data) => {
console.log("child> " + data);
// How do I disconnect now?
});
I've attempted the following solutions with no success:
- Using
detached:trueoption and callingchild.unref() - Removing the "data" listener
Modified code with above changes, but still encountering issues:
const child = childProcess.spawn("httpserver", [], {detached: true});
child.stdout.on("data", function cb(data) {
console.log("child> " + data);
child.stdout.removeListener("data", cb);
});
child.unref();
Is there an alternative method to close the stdout pipe and detach from the child-process?
In relation to this issue, I noticed the documentation referencing a child.disconnect() API. However, when attempting to utilize it, I receive a "function not found" error. Is this the correct API to use in this situation, and why isn't it working for me?