Is it possible to call a native process in Electron?

Question

For example, if I want to call git or something like that is it possible?

Example:

var process = new Process();
process.executable = File.ApplicationDirectory() + "/utilities/my_process_not_node_js";
process.arguments = "-html=5 -include-css=true -mobile-support=true";
process.addEventListener("standardInput", handleInput);
process.run();

Possible duplicate of [Spawn a child process in Electron](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38172308/spawn-a-child-process-in-electron) — Danny Buonocore, May 24 '19 at 03:14
Probably you could use some thing like this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12941083/execute-and-get-the-output-of-a-shell-command-in-node-js — Sharvin K, May 24 '19 at 05:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '19 at 08:44

Sure you can you have access to the complete NodeJS builtin API.

For example if you want to execute a simple ls -lh /usr command, you can do:

const { spawn } = require('child_process');
const ls = spawn('ls', ['-lh', '/usr']);

ls.stdout.on('data', data => console.log(`stdout: ${data}`));

ls.stderr.on('data', data => console.log(`stderr: ${data}`));

ls.on('close', code => console.log(`child process exited with code ${code}`));

Is it possible to call a native process in Electron?

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