How to get rid of annoying popups in Windows 10?

[nakamorichi]

How do I disable the popup windows that pm2 generates in Windows 10 when starting, restarting or reloading a Node.js app? From the perspective of rapid server-side development, this is very annoying...

[Unitech]

Would it be an issue because of the way we spawn processes?

• https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/blob/development/lib/God/ClusterMode.js#L52
• https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/blob/development/lib/God/ForkMode.js#L94

I don't know if I have to customize something on this code segments,

[soyuka]

{detached: true should get rid of this error but it is not available for cluster.

[Unitech]

interesting, maybe @ThisIsMac47 will have a look at this on the next weeks

[vmarchaud]

After testing, the detached option doesnt hide popups on Windows, i think that nodejs spawn a shell to spawn the process.
I will investigate more in the next days.

[vmarchaud]

Okay so :

• In fork mode, you shouldnt have popups in the dev branch since now
• In cluster mode, unfortunately, we dont have control on the popup cause we use the cluster implementation of nodejs.

If you get any popup apart of cluster mode, respond to this issue to report it, i will investigate for each one.

[soyuka]

Because we can't get detached: true in cluster?

[vmarchaud]

They use the function fork, we can use detached: true only with spawn.

[soyuka]

Yes ok so if that's the main reason, the only solution is to port cluster into pm2 instead of using the nodejs cluster.
Did you try a simple cluster implementation without pm2 to see if it pops up too?

[vmarchaud]

I wasnt able to reproduce with a simple cluster implementation, this might coming from the fact that we are a spawning a child from a forked child or something like this.
We manage to delete the popups in cluster mod by rewriting the implementation on the branch of a forked cluster implementation, we will talk about how include this into future release of pm2.

[ajithr]

Is this issue fixed or any workaround available? I have faced the same issue when using cluster mode with watch option. The node window opens multiple time when saving the file.