I have been trying to figure out how to open a new terminal window from a Node application and run a preset command or script there.

I can open the terminal window:

const { exec } = require('child_process')

exec('open -a Terminal '   process.env.HOME)

And this works fine, I have done a bit of research but it seems I can only find examples directed to bash

Could anyone help me on this?

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

One way to do this would be to place the commands you want to run in a shell script with the .command extension. By default, these files will be opened in the Terminal application on macOS. This is a bit of a workaround, but I think it achieves what you would like to do.

Say we have the file hello.js containing the following:

console.log("Hello World")

And the shell script run_node.command

#!/bin/bash
node hello.js

Running the command open run_node.command will open a new Terminal.app instance and run the shell script, which in turn runs the node command. The terminal will close when the script exits.