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Process execution for humans

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2022-04-28 · latest 2025-08-04

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  1. Execa package works nicely for that. Zx has a good DX but is YA runtime. https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/bash.md
    comment by turadg · 2025-08-04 · in Modern Node.js Patterns
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    Execa: Process Execution for Humans in Node.js
    story by thunderbong · 2024-01-21 · 0 comments
  3. Yeah, or over https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa ? And given the existence of those npm packages, is there any aspect of Bun Shell that required it to be built into the Bun runtime instead of published to npm?
    comment by roryokane · 2024-01-20 · in The Bun Shell
  4. …Works like a charm! Another alternative is the ZX shell[2] JS library. Tho haven't tested it. [1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa [2]: https://github.com/google/zx
    comment by nathan_phoenix · 2024-01-20 · in The Bun Shell
  5. …a programmer for using this API wrong. It is so easy to use wrong, and so hard to use correctly. https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/issues/350
    comment by jitl · 2022-04-28 · in I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)