Chapter 8. Child processes: Integrating external applications with Node
This chapter covers
- Executing external applications
- Detaching a child process
- Interprocess communication between Node processes
- Making Node programs executable
- Creating job pools
- Synchronous child processes
No platform is an island. Although it would be fun to write everything in JavaScript, we’d miss out on valuable applications that already exist in other platforms. Take GraphicsMagick, for instance (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/): a full-featured image manipulation tool, great for resizing that massively large profile photo that was just uploaded. Or take wkhtmltopdf (http://wkhtmltopdf.org/), a headless webkit PDF generator, perfect for turning that HTML report ...
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