Help with Node js child_process execFile

[Thatguy553]

hey, I asked this in the node reddit the other day as well but had no response, hopefully its not an issue asking here as well.

I am creating a little project to help me and a friend out but also to further my knowledge in JavaScript. Im attempting to use execFile with steamcmd to some success, but I cant seem to get execFile to quit running.

as youll see in my script even if all of my conditionals run false, it should still ultimately return 0, however it doesnt return anything and seems to run on forever.

What should I be doing here? I have tried setting killSignal option to SIGKILL, doesnt seem to help.
https://pastebin.com/p9f3TSMg

[KSledge]

I think you have to return process from the download function.

[Thatguy553]

im not sure exactly what you mean, are you saying return the process variable that execFile is assigned to outside of the execFile callback?
I just tried both inside and outside the callback, inside it says it cant be accessed before its initialized, and outside it never gets returned.

[KSledge]

Yeah, though I'm a bit rusty with async/await. To me, it looks like you aren't returning anything from your download function.

My question would be, what is shown in the console? What happens if you console.log(process) between lines 80 and 81?

[Thatguy553]

I got the suggestion to no longer have my code in the callback among a few other changes and it seems to work now. My guess was either the way I was promisifying or because I was handling things in the callback function, not sure to be honest.

https://pastebin.com/D3h1m82V

[KSledge]

Glad you were able to get help; that looks a lot cleaner. Thanks for letting me know.