petruisfan/node-supervisor
Node Supervisor
node-supervisor is a process supervisor and manager for Node.js applications. It provides automated lifecycle management and crash recovery by executing programs and monitoring their status to ensure continuous availability.
The utility implements a hot-reloading workflow by monitoring the filesystem for source code modifications. When changes are detected, the supervisor terminates the existing process and triggers an immediate restart to apply updates.
The tool covers process control capabilities including the spawning of external executables, signal-based termination, and the piping of standard input and output streams for real-time logging.
Features
- Node.js Application Supervisors - Acts as a process supervisor for Node.js applications, controlling how they start, stop, and recover from errors.
- Application Hot Reloaders - Provides a hot-reloading workflow that automatically restarts the Node.js process when source files are modified.
- Hot Reloading Utilities - Serves as a development utility that monitors source code and restarts the Node.js process for instant updates.
- Supervised Process Restarts - Implements automatic restart of child processes upon crashes to ensure continuous application availability.
- Source-Change Auto-Restarts - Automatically stops and restarts the running application whenever its source files are modified.
- Child Process Spawning - Spawns separate operating system processes to execute the target application independently from the supervisor.
- Node.js Process Managers - Manages the lifecycle and automatic restarts of Node.js applications to ensure high availability.
- Filesystem Change Monitors - Monitors the filesystem for source code modifications to trigger the termination and restart of the managed process.
- External Command Execution - Allows the use of configurable shell commands or paths to launch the target program.
- Local Development Servers - Automates the process of restarting server-side logic locally during the development and testing phase.
- Program Execution - Executes specified programs using custom executables and arguments passed to the system process.
- Process Termination Signals - Sends termination signals to child processes to force shutdowns before starting fresh instances.
- Process Termination Controls - Controls the termination of supervised processes through signals to facilitate rapid restarts.
- Process Management - Process supervisor for Node.js.
