Node Children

Concurrent tasks computation among nodejs child processes

Features

• Evented API (with EventEmitter2)
• Auto-respawn of dead processes
• Underscore methods available on child process collections

NPM

Install the module with: npm install children

Documentation

Usage

var children = require('children')(path.resolve(__dirname, './worker2.js'), {
  // @see Manager.defaults
});

children.start(function(){
  // Or listen to the `ready` event

  children.send("hello world");
});

children is a collection of child process that implements ~28 underscore methods

> children.pluck('pid')
[ 47494, 47495, 47496, 47497 ]

Available events

ready(children) respawning:child(child, children) spawning:child(child, children) spawned:child(child, children) killing:child(child, children) killed:child(child, children, exitCode, signalCode)

Todo

• Update documentation
• Better examples

Release History

v0.1.0 - Initial commit (17 fev. 2012)

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Francois-Guillaume Ribreau Licensed under the MIT license.