Question: Server restart - A way of starting the services, in a particular order? about node-windows HOT 5 CLOSED

RTFC.
Sorry my bad, should have checked out the code first, if anyone else is looking for the same thing, check out ...
https://github.com/coreybutler/node-windows/blob/master/lib/winsw.js#L51-L56

Would be cool if this was documented, might add a PR for documenting this, when I've had a proper play with it.

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Ah, you found it while I was typing! Feel free to do a doc PR. I am actually getting ready to release a round of updates that have been on my backburner for a while, but that is not one on my list... but I'm happy to accept contributions. I'm not 100% convinced the solution will provide exactly what you're looking for, but it might at least give you a start.

To address your point regarding scope, it is not something I planned to address in great detail with node-windows (or node-mac/linux). For quite some time now, I have been working on a different project called NGN for this type of scenario. It is a distributed programming framework that has a server agent capable of registering and communicating with disparate processes (LAN & WAN). In some ways, it is similar to Seaport. The node-* modules are really just "housing" for NGN processes though. The project is done, but I have some folks vetting out bugs at the moment... so not ready to release just yet.

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OK, cool - well I'll see where I get with it.

NGN sounds interesting, I'll have to watch out for that.

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So it's been a while and a lot has changed (coming in the next major release). winsw has added support for dependencies, though I'm not sure they fit in the scope of the node-* modules. Regardless, it should be pretty easy to make this happen.

Additionally, the events, such as start will now trigger in an order where you could create a script with event handlers to launch processes in a specific order, i.e. something along the lines of:

serviceA.on('start',function(){
  serviceB.start();
});

serviceB.on('start',function(){
  serviceC.start();
});

serviceC.on('start',function(){
  console.log('All 3 scripts starting.');
});

serviceA.start();

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Sounds good, look forward to seeing it.

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