How to Start another node application using node js

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I have two separate node applications. I'd like one of them to be able to start the other one at some point in the code. How would I go about doing this?
Nov 30, 2020 in Node-js by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

Use child_process.fork(). It is similar to spawn(), but is used to create entire new instances of V8. Therefore it is specially used for running new instances of Node. If you are just executing a command, then use spawn() or exec().

var fork = require('child_process').fork;
var child = fork('./script');

Note that when using fork(), by default, the stdio streams are associated with the parent. This means all output and errors will be shown in the parent process. If you don't want the streams shared with the parent, you can define the stdio property in the options:

var child = fork('./script', [], {
  stdio: 'pipe'
});

Then you can handle the process separately from the master process' streams.

child.stdin.on('data', function(data) {
  // output from the child process
});

Hope it helps!!

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answered Nov 30, 2020 by Niroj
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