respawn is a simple command line app that launches a child process and automatically re-spawns it if it exits. Nodejs is packaged inside the app and does not need to be installed separately. No fancy interface, commands, or logging. Just start it and forget about it.
I had a very specific use case where I was deploying a packaged nodejs app and needed a way to make sure that it stays running and restarts if exiting.
I wanted to use pm2 but that would have required npm to be installed and I was trying to keep things light.
After 2 minutes of writing some code, respawn was born.
respawn has been packaged into an executable using pkg. The current binaries can be found on the releases page.
- For command line installation, see the following steps.
//linux
wget https://github.com/kevinGodell/respawn/releases/download/v0.0.1/respawn-linux-x64.zip
//mac
curl -L -O https://github.com/kevinGodell/respawn/releases/download/v0.0.1/respawn-macos-x64.zip
//linux
unzip respawn-linux-x64.zip
//mac
unzip respawn-macos-x64.zip
//linux
./ffmpeg-streamer-linux-x64 <path-to-executable> <params to be passed to exectuable> &(run in background)
//mac
./ffmpeg-streamer-macos-x64 <path-to-executable> <params to be passed to exectuable> &(run in background)
ffmpeg-streamer-linux-x64 is launched in the background and has 3000 and development passed to it as parameters
./respawn-linux-x64 ./ffmpeg-streamer-linux-x64 3000 development &
After launching, respawn will listen for the child process to exit. If exiting, the child process will automatically be respawned after 10 seconds.
git clone https://github.com/kevinGodell/respawn.git && cd respawn
npm install
npm run dev
npm run dist:pkg
If you have an idea for a new feature or have a problem, please do not hesitate to open an issue. For problems, please include information about what operating system the app is running on and what executable you are spawning with it. Any additional details would be helpful.
- Add command line parameters to customize it
