Send Shell script server output to react client

vaibhav singh — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:19:43 +0000

I'm new in MERN & I have a shell script to upload some data to mongodb,
from nodejs i have to execute shellscript and show it to client side in react like streaming.

i'm using child process ref. code below and getting the Events output on console.

But when requesting from React with axios.get() , i'm not getting event wise output, after complete processing, getting the complete output in the response.

const spawn = require('child_process').spaw;

const options = {shell: true,detached:true,}

res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream','Cache-Control': 'no-cache','Connection': 'keep-alive'});

var child = spawn(file.sh,[sort_name], options);

child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');

child.stdout.on('data', function (data) {

res.write(data);

});

child.stderr.setEncoding('utf8');

child.stderr.on('data', function (data) {

res.write(data);

});

child.on('close', function (code) {

console.log('Full output of script');

res.end();

});

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Send Shell script server output to react client