Source: node-execa Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , jest , node-ajv , node-babel7 , node-get-stream , node-is-stream , node-merge-stream , node-mimic-fn , node-npm-run-path , node-shebang-command , node-signal-exit , node-which Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-execa Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-execa.git Homepage: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-execa Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , node-get-stream , node-is-stream , node-merge-stream , node-mimic-fn , node-npm-run-path , node-shebang-command , node-signal-exit , node-which , nodejs Provides: ${nodejs:Provides} Description: better `child_process` This is better in the following ways: - Promise interface. - Strips EOF from the output so you don't have to `stdout.trim()`. - Supports shebang binaries cross-platform. - Improved Windows support. - Higher max buffer. 10 MB instead of 200 KB. - Executes locally installed binaries by name. - Cleans up spawned processes when the parent process dies. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.