Is it possible to call a cli tool from node using variables passed from the frontend?

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  • You would have to start a HTTP server (Make one easily ExpressJS or Fastify). You can refer to their documentation on how to setup a route (GET with query parameters or POST with a JSON body is fine for recieving information from the frontend) which when called, will execute code (This is your backend code, meaning you can execute CLI commands and so on).

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  • You would have to start a HTTP server (Make one easily ExpressJS or Fastify). You can refer to their documentation on how to setup a route (GET with query parameters or POST with a JSON body is fine for recieving information from the frontend) which when called, will execute code (This is your backend code, meaning you can execute CLI commands and so on).

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