Allow manual startup of the node.js runtime and pass environment variables about capacitor-nodejs HOT 5 CLOSED

Regarding the environment variables, are there any particular advantages? If so, I would consider adding some as presets which can be toggled in the start options. Allowing to set every env variable would be out of scope of this plugin.

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My app is built like https://12factor.net/ (except secrets can come from things like docker or vault nowadays). The database url (sqlite in this case) mounted path and other things come from env variables.

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I wasn't exactly clear what I wanted the signature to look like. Something like https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_processspawncommand-args-options , but obviously it's not a being treated as a child process here so we can omit most of the args.

so it'd look like

// this is basically node's definition of process.env minus the generic
interface EnvVars {
 [key: string]: string | undefined;
}

interface StartOptions {
  env: EnvVars;
  // any other options could be added here, like cwd 
}
// not really tied to this name
start(fileName: string, args: string[], opts: StartOptions)

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I like your idea. However, this wouldn't work with the current ElectronJS integration as it is. Therefore the implementation will take some time.

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Added in v1.0.0-beta.4

You can now use the startMode configuration and the start() method to manually start the Node.js runtime. In addition, arguments can be passed to the main script and environment variables for the Node.js runtime can be set.

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