run terminal commands in custom atom package

Question

I am currently creating an atom package which runs commands on the windows command prompt not the atom command prompt. So far, I only have the code:

if (editor = atom.workspace.getActiveTextEditor()){
  let editor = atom.workspace.getActiveTextEditor();
  let file = editor.buffer.file;
  let path = file.path;

  editor.save();

  editor.insertText(path);
}

I do not know how to spawn a command window or how to run a command. All that code does is check if the user is in a text window and then for testing purposes inserts the path into the text window. Eventually, I am going to need to run cd path .

Answer 1

To execute a program, you can use the with child_process module that's bundled with Node (Atom has its own wrapper for it, see BufferedProcess )

Example:

// Somewhere in your header
const { spawn } = require('child_process');

// Where you need to execute the Java compiler
const javac = spawn('javac', [path], {stdio: inherit});

For debugging purposes, you probably want to use something like console-panel to print messages.