outfitter-daemon

Background daemon lifecycle management handles startup, shutdown, and graceful termination for reliable long-running processes. It uses signal handling and cleanup routines to ensure background services exit cleanly without orphaned resources.

IPC communication for daemons enables communication between the daemon and other processes via sockets. This pattern allows long-running background services to receive commands and report status back to controlling processes or monitoring tools.

Health checks for background services implement periodic checks to ensure the daemon and its dependencies are healthy. This monitoring approach verifies the daemon remains responsive and its required external connections stay active during execution.

PID file management for background processes manages process IDs for reliable daemon status tracking. It prevents duplicate daemon instances and provides a deterministic method to locate and signal the running process for shutdown or status queries.

You can use @outfitter/daemon to build a background service that monitors system resources and responds to commands. It provides the essential building blocks for creating such a daemon with proper error handling and status reporting.