bare-sidecar

Start and manage Bare sidecar processes from Node.js and Electron. A sidecar is a separate Bare process spawned from a host runtime, with a dedicated IPC channel exposed as a duplex stream on both ends.

npm i bare-sidecar

Usage

In the host process:

const Sidecar = require('bare-sidecar')

const sidecar = new Sidecar(require.resolve('./entry'))

sidecar
  .on('exit', (code, status) => {
    // The sidecar process exited
  })
  .on('data', (data) => {
    // Received data from the sidecar over IPC
  })
  .write('Hello sidecar')

In the sidecar entry (entry.js), the IPC channel is available as a stream on Bare.IPC:

Bare.IPC.on('data', (data) => Bare.IPC.write(data))

API

See the bare-sidecar reference.

License

Apache-2.0