# node-children

**Repository Path**: mirrors_FGRibreau/node-children

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: node-children
- **Description**: Concurrent tasks computation among NodeJS child processes (vertical scaling)
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-07-18

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

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![npm](https://nodei.co/npm/children.png)


Concurrent tasks computation among nodejs child processes

### Features
* Evented API (with [EventEmitter2](https://github.com/hij1nx/EventEmitter2))
* Auto-respawn dead processes
* Underscore methods available on child processes

## NPM
Install module with: `npm install children`

## [Documentation](http://fgribreau.github.com/node-children/docs/index.html)

## Usage
```javascript
var children = require('children')(path.resolve(__dirname, './worker2.js'), {
  // @see Manager.defaults
});

// Start all childrens
children.start(function(){
  // specify a callback or listen to the `ready` event
  children.send("hello world");
});
```

`children` is a collection of child process that implements [~28 underscore methods](http://backbonejs.org/#Collection-Underscore-Methods)

```javascript
> children.pluck('pid')
[ 47494, 47495, 47496, 47497 ]
```

## Available events
`ready(children)`
`message(child)`
`respawning:child(child, children)`
`spawning:child(child, children)`
`spawned:child(child, children)`
`killing:child(child, children)`
`killed:child(child, children, exitCode, signalCode)`

## Todo
* Update documentation
* Better examples


## Release History
v0.2.2 - Updated doxx (19 oct. 2014)
v0.1.0 - Initial commit (17 fev. 2012)

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## License
Copyright (c) 2013 Francois-Guillaume Ribreau
Licensed under the MIT license.