How to create a named pipe in node.js?

Question

How to create a named pipe in node.js?

P.S.: For now I'm creating a named pipe as follows. But I think this is not best way

var mkfifoProcess = spawn('mkfifo',  [fifoFilePath]);
mkfifoProcess.on('exit', function (code) {
    if (code == 0) {
        console.log('fifo created: ' + fifoFilePath);
    } else {
        console.log('fail to create fifo with code:  ' + code);
    }
});

node.js
pipe
named-pipes

Answer 1

Looks like name pipes aren't and won't be supported in Node core - from Ben Noordhuis 10/11/11:

Windows has a concept of named pipes but since you mention mkfifo I assume you mean UNIX FIFOs.

We don't support them and probably never will (FIFOs in non-blocking mode have the potential to deadlock the event loop) but you can use UNIX sockets if you need similar functionality.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/9TvDwCWaB5c/udQPigFvmgAJ

Named pipes and sockets are very similar however, the net module implements local sockets by specifying a path as opposed to a host and port:

Example:

var net = require('net');

var server = net.createServer(function(stream) {
  stream.on('data', function(c) {
    console.log('data:', c.toString());
  });
  stream.on('end', function() {
    server.close();
  });
});

server.listen('/tmp/test.sock');

var stream = net.connect('/tmp/test.sock');
stream.write('hello');
stream.end();

Answer 2

Maybe use fs.watchFile instead of named pipe ? See documentation