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keystoneJS as child_process

I want to create separate process for sending bulk emails so I kicked off a child process.

var cp = require('child_process');

Inside that process I am initialising a keystone, but not starting it. because starting will make it listen on HTTP port also. my intenstion is just to use its Database feature.

Is this possible.

Solution

  • I resolved this issue by keystone.mongoose.connect. Thus I have just initialised the keystone, and mongoose and not initialised the server and express. This is sufficient for sending bulk emails.

     var keystone = require('keystone');

 keystone.init({
    'less': 'public',
    'view engine': 'jade',
    'user model': 'User',
    'emails': '../../templates/emails'
});

keystone.mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/mydb");
keystone.import('../../models');