Move a lot of shell stuff over to Node so that Windows users need not install git bash.

build-assets.sh

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# File created to force npm execution in shell (instead of potentially Windows batch).
-# This script can be run manually if esbuild is replaced by the following:
-# ./node_modules/.bin/esbuild
-
-# Make the ./views/dist directory in case it doesn't exist, and also make it empty.
-dist='./views/dist'; mkdir "$dist"; find "$dist" -mindepth 1 -delete &&
-# Curly bracket wildcards are not supported by some clients, so this is quite long.
-esbuild --platform=browser --sourcemap --minify --bundle --external:*.png --external:*.jpg --external:*.jpeg --external:*.webp --external:*.svg --outdir="$dist" ./views/uv/*.js ./views/assets/js/*.js ./views/assets/js/*/*.js ./views/assets/css/*.css

package.json

@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@
   "main": "backend.js",
   "scripts": {
     "start": "npm install && npm run build && npm run manual-start",
-    "restart": "npm stop; npm run manual-start",
+    "restart": "npm stop ; npm run manual-start",
-    "stop": "( pm2 stop ecosystem.config.js ) ; node shutdown.mjs",
+    "stop": "node run-command.mjs stop",
     "test": "npm run proxy-validator",
-    "monit": "pm2 monit",
+    "pm2-start": "pm2 start ecosystem.config.js --env production",
-    "manual-start": "node read-config.mjs 'production' && ( pm2 start ecosystem.config.js --env production ) || ( node backend.js & pkill -n npm || true )",
+    "pm2-stop": "pm2 stop ecosystem.config.js",
-    "build": "sh ./build-assets.sh && cd lib/rammerhead && npm install && npm run build",
+    "pm2-monit": "pm2 monit",
+    "manual-start": "node run-command.mjs start",
+    "build": "node run-command.mjs build && cd lib/rammerhead && npm install && npm run build",
     "start-test-server": "timeout 5 node backend.js; test $? -eq 124 && ( npm run manual-start & ) || exit 1",
     "proxy-validator": "node proxyServiceValidator.js"
   },

run-command.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import { readFile, writeFile, unlink, mkdir, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { exec, fork } from 'node:child_process';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { build } from 'esbuild';
+
+const config = Object.freeze(JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL("./src/config.json", import.meta.url))));
+
+const serverUrl = (base => {
+  try {
+    base = new URL(config.host);
+  } catch (e) {
+    base = new URL("http://a");
+    base.host = config.host;
+  }
+  base.port = process.env.PORT || config.port;
+  return Object.freeze(base);
+})();
+
+const shutdown = new URL("./src/.shutdown", import.meta.url);
+
+for(let i = 2; i < process.argv.length; i++)
+  switch (process.argv[i]) {
+    case "start": {
+      if (config.production)
+        exec("npm run pm2-start", (error, stdout) => {
+            if (error) throw error;
+            console.log(stdout);
+        });
+      else {
+        const server = fork(
+          new URL("./backend.js", import.meta.url),
+          {detached: true}
+        );
+        server.unref();
+        server.disconnect();
+      }
+      break;
+    }
+
+    case "stop":
+      await writeFile(shutdown, "");
+      try {await fetch(new URL("/test-shutdown", serverUrl))}
+      catch (e) {await unlink(shutdown)}
+      if (config.production)
+        exec("npm run pm2-stop", (error, stdout) => {
+          if (error) throw error;
+          console.log(stdout);
+        });
+      break;
+
+    case "build": {
+      const dist = fileURLToPath(new URL("./views/dist", import.meta.url));
+      await rm(dist, {force: true, recursive: true});
+      await mkdir(dist);
+      await build({
+        entryPoints: [
+          "./views/uv/**/*.js",
+          "./views/assets/js/**/*.js",
+          "./views/assets/css/**/*.css"
+        ],
+        platform: "browser",
+        sourcemap: true,
+        bundle: true,
+        minify: true,
+        external: ["*.png", "*.jpg", "*.jpeg", "*.webp", "*.svg"],
+        outdir: dist
+      });
+      break;
+    }
+
+//  No default case.
+  }
+
+
+process.exitCode = 0;

shutdown.mjs

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-import { readFile, writeFile, unlink } from 'node:fs/promises';
-
-const config = Object.freeze(JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL("./src/config.json", import.meta.url))));
-
-const serverUrl = (base => {
-  try {
-    base = new URL(config.host);
-  } catch (e) {
-    base = new URL("http://a");
-    base.host = config.host;
-  }
-  base.port = process.env.PORT || config.port;
-  return Object.freeze(base);
-})();
-
-const shutdown = new URL("./src/.shutdown", import.meta.url);
-
-await writeFile(shutdown, "");
-try {await fetch(new URL("/test-shutdown", serverUrl))}
-catch (e) {await unlink(shutdown)}
-process.exitCode = 0;