node-spawn-async
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MIT License | MIT License |
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node-spawn-async
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The Bun Shell
One thing that surprised me about Node was how slow the default way to shelling out (child_process) could be (probably https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/14917).
Although according to the linked issue, it has been "fixed", I still ran into a problem during a batch script that was calling imagemagick through a shell for each file in a massive directory; profiling was telling me that starting (not completing) (yes, I was using the async version) the child process increasingly slows, from sub-millisecond for the first few spawns, to eventually hundreds of milliseconds or seconds... Eventually I had to resort to doing only single spawn a bash script that in turn did all the shelling out.
It seems that the linked execa still relies on child_process and therefore has the same issue. It saddens me to see the only package for node that appears to actually fix this and provide a workaround seems to be https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/node-spawn-async and unmaintained.
execa
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Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
I’m partial to Sindre Sorhus’ execa, this document outlines the differences:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/scripts...
- Execa: Process Execution for Humans in Node.js
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The Bun Shell
Yeah, or over https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?
And given the existence of those npm packages, is there any aspect of Bun Shell that required it to be built into the Bun runtime instead of published to npm?
For something which works across all JS runtimes (Deno, Node) and achieves basically the same, check out the popular JS library Execa[1]. Works like a charm!
[1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa
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Building Reactive CLIs with Ink - React CLI library
To simplify the process of running the commands, I will use execa - abstraction library on top of Node.js child_process methods.
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How to run DB migrations in CICD Pipeline
Hello, this is an interesting problem. At https://stacktape.com (where we're creating a developer-friendly abstraction of AWS), we're recommending 2 options: - use a "deployment script" (basically a custom-resource lambda function that runs during the CloudFormation deployment). You can install prisma into it, and then execute the migration command from the lambda function using something like execa, if you're using Javascript/Typescript. You can easily do this with Stacktape anytime. - use a bastion (EC2) instance (deployed to the the VPC where your RDS db is). The cheapest instances cost ~4.5$/month, so it shoudln't be too costly. You can also securely connect to it using EC2 instance connect, that leverages IAM to grant permissions to connect to it. (this is something we're currently implementing as Stacktape, and will be ready in ~2 weeks).
- Fluent shell scripts with JavaScript
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Testing in ReScript
For FE, it’s usually Cypress or Playwright; for BE, it’s to run a server and start sending requests; for CLI, I like the tool called execa.
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How to use execa@6 with NestJs?
Since version 6 execa is pure ES module. An attempt to import a package into NestJS project results in an error:
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Getting vim ex command output without a TTY?
Essentially when I run this from my shell I get a listing of keymaps configured for vim. However, when I run it from a program without a PTY or TTY (e.g., via Rust's Command or Node's execa) I get an exit code of 0 and no output.
What are some alternatives?
murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
zx - A tool for writing better scripts
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
nodegit - Native Node bindings to Git.
schemapack - Create a schema object to encode/decode your JSON in to a compact byte buffer with no overhead.
hypernova - A service for server-side rendering your JavaScript views
nan - Native Abstractions for Node.js
agenda - Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js
listr - Terminal task list
v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser
cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.