Hide child process console window

Question

When spawning a new child in nodejs on windows (child_process.spawn) it always opens a blank console window which stays open until the child process ends.

Is there a way to avoid this?

i.e. we want to run our application as a background service using forever. However, it is not very backgroundy since it keeps opening and closing blank console windows...

EDIT: Making the sub application run in "quiet" mode is not an option since parts of the processes being spawned is wmic.

Answer 1

In 2017, a windowsHide option was introduced:

Hide the subprocess console window that would normally be created on Windows systems. Default: false.