bare-ipc

Lightweight pipe-based IPC for Bare.

npm i bare-ipc

API

IPC

const [portA, portB] = IPC.open(opts)

Returns a pair of IPCPorts for use constructing the IPC duplex stream based on bare-pipe.

const ipc = new IPC(port)

Returns a duplex stream using the provided port. See streamx's Duplex for Duplex API.

ipc.ref()

Increase the reference count for the IPC to keep the event loop alive.

A common pattern is to ipc.ref() on Bare.on('resume') and ipc.unref() on suspend like so:

Bare.on('suspend', () => ipc.unref()).on('resume', () => ipc.ref())

ipc.unref()

Decrease the reference count for the IPC to allow the event loop to exit.

See ipc.ref() for common pattern to keep the event loop alive.

IPCPort

const port = new IPCPort(incoming, outgoing)

The arguments are:

• incoming is the read file handle
• outgoing is the write file handle

port.connect()

Returns an IPC connected to the port.

port.detached

A boolean for whether the port is detached.

License

Apache-2.0