Need to improve js tools (npm / bower) launch ---------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-21165 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-21165 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Enhancement Components: nodejs Reporter: Ilya Buziuk Assignee: Ilya Buziuk Fix For: 4.4.0.Alpha1 For now npm / bower is launched via node. Basically, this was done due to the fact that on Mac Os launched from desktop node PATH var not available: {quote} env: node: No such file or directory {quote} In order to handle it, it was suggested to launch npm / bower tools via node and have a preference for each tool. However, on thym project more elegant solution was found - execute the given command and returns a handle to the process. More details can be found here: - https://github.com/gorkem/thym/blob/use_cli/plugins/org.eclipse.thym.core... - https://github.com/gorkem/thym/blob/use_cli/plugins/org.eclipse.thym.core... Basically, this approach kills two birds with one stone: 1. No mac os Path issue 2. No need to have preferences for node / npm / bower Also, it will be quite easy to provide cheatsheets for this tools which will include sets of commands The plan is: - reimplement the launch process that will be generic for both jsdt and thym (maybe some other tools in future) - remove irrelevant code with preferences, detectors etc