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Yeah you're right it doesn't work that way. What I have always done is use PowerShell in a more atomic way so I run a small script that gathers a list and returns it to Javascript then I have Javascript iterate through the list entering in each value as a parameter in the next PowerShell operation. In this way I would, for example, get-adprincipalgroupmembership and then get-effectiveaccess for each of those groups. In my experience this is best done one at a time in series and then you ps.dispose() at the end.

I have a very basic example here: https://github.com/BenjaminMichael/node-powershell-electron-basic-demo

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I know, isn't it fun to use node-powershell? There's a few ways to accomplish what you are describing but I think the short answer to your question is the "on output" event listener:

let ps = new shell({
            executionPolicy: 'Bypass',
            noProfile: true
            });
ps.on('output', output => {console.log(output)}
ps.addCommand(`./somescript.ps1`)
ps.invoke()

So what I do is have my script output some JSON formatted string that explains what step of the process or more frequently what async thing just completed.

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Clever. Thanks for that.

See here for other events (where I should have looked).

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Looking at the source it seems to only emit the output event when EOI is reached - is there a way to get Write-Output (or even Write-Verbose) output during the script running?

Should I break up my cmdlet into smaller components and call them in a promise chain? I would like to recurse over a directory and print in an Electron window what directory is being processed.

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