node-preload

Request that Node.js child processes preload modules

Install node-preload

This module requires node.js 8 or above.

npm i node-preload

Usage

'use strict';

const preloadList = require('node-preload');

// Request that all Node.js child processes preload @babel/register
preloadList.push(require.resolve('@babel/register'));

Limitations

Worker threads are not directly supported by this module, results may vary.

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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

0.2.1 (2019-12-22)

Bug Fixes

• Support jumping between node.js versions (#7) (68950a0), closes istanbuljs/nyc#1246

0.2.0 (2019-12-16)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• The API is completely rewritten, the export is now an Array.
• Propagated variables are no longer supported. For this functionality preload a local module which uses process-on-spawn directly.

Features

• Use process-on-spawn (#6) (2decb3a)

0.1.4 (2019-11-01)

Features

• Support running under yarn pnp (#3) (15d949b), closes istanbuljs/nyc#1204

0.1.3 (2019-10-07)

Bug Fixes

• Properly handle backslashes in paths on Node.js 12 (#2) (2ad4448)

0.1.2 (2019-09-24)

Bug Fixes

• esm must be loaded from the internal/preload module (a5444dd)

0.1.1 (2019-09-23)

Bug Fixes

• Add main to package.json (6b39401)
• Handle situations where a preload might require node-preload. (3b41164)

0.1.0 (2019-09-23)

Features

• Initial implementation (0818e8c)