I have been trying to figure out how to open a new terminal window from a Node application and run a preset command or script there.
I can open the terminal window:
const { exec } = require('child_process')
exec('open -a Terminal ' + process.env.HOME)
And this works fine, I have done a bit of research but it seems I can only find examples directed to bash
Could anyone help me on this?
Thanks
One way to do this would be to place the commands you want to run in a shell script with the .command extension. By default, these files will be opened in the Terminal application on macOS. This is a bit of a workaround, but I think it achieves what you would like to do.
Say we have the file hello.js containing the following:
console.log("Hello World")
And the shell script run_node.command
#!/bin/bash
node hello.js
Running the command open run_node.command will open a new Terminal.app instance and run the shell script, which in turn runs the node command. The terminal will close when the script exits.