How to call Shell script or python script in from a Atom electron app

Question

I'm trying to use the Atom electron to write a Desktop App for both Mac and Windows.

What I need here is :

A button.

And when the user click the button it runs the following shell (or python script):

ping x.x.x.x

And the result will be displayed in a TextArea.

I tried to use [shelljs] and [yargs] but it seems like it is not workable with Atom electron.

All I want is to use JAVASCRIPT to write Desktop App (with GUI of course) that calls some script (shell && python) to do some automation work.

Any suggestion will be appreciated, thanks :)

Answer 1

It can be done directly with Node, you can use the child_process module. Please notice this is asynchronous.

const exec = require('child_process').exec;

function execute(command, callback) {
    exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => { 
        callback(stdout); 
    });
};

// call the function
execute('ping -c 4 0.0.0.0', (output) => {
    console.log(output);
});

I encourage you to also have a look at npm, there are tons of modules that could help you to do what you want, without calling a python script.