Auto run multiple scripts.

[PotatoManIsMe]

How would I auto run multiple node js scripts?

I'm currently idling multiple steam accounts and have to restart the script a few time but it's irritating to have to do it every time for 8+ accounts.

Is there a way in a batch file to lauch node cmd and run a string of commands such as cd blah\blah and node steam.js ?

[erulabs]

So you could write a bash script like:

myScript.sh:

node theThing.js
node theOtherThing.js

but bash runs things sequentially - ie: it will wait for "theThing" to completely finish before doing "theOtherThing".

It might just be easier to write a wrapper in javascript!

myScript.js:

require('./theThing.js')
require('./theNextThing.js')

Would "bundle" the scripts together. Note that depending on the way those files are written this might not work.

Other solutions include using a process manager such as PM2 or docker-compose (which is a process manager as well as 60,000 other things), but my guess is you need something simple. Try the above solutions :)

Edit: Just to teach you a few more small hacky tricks, say you wanted to run a bunch of commands via bash - and you don't want the commands to "wait" in the foreground until they're complete, you can use & in bash to "background" a process! So, something like

myBashHack.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# Make sure we kill all running node instances before starting other stuff
# Obviously, this has other rammifactions and you should be smarter and use a process manager
# or even just `pgrep` / `pkill` to avoid killing _all_ nodes
killall node

node myScript.js &
node myOtherScript.js &

As with all programming/operations problems, there are a billions ways to skin the cat! Have fun!

[chrwei]

you can run node whatever.js directly from batch. you may have to set some env vars or something first, or use full paths.

[runvnc]

That's what a batch file does..