Quickly shutdown, reboot, log off, halt, restarts, etc. your computer using the native shutdown command easily from an electron app. Cross platform (Windows; macOS and Linux)

You need to run the app as sudo/root to allow to run the shutdown command!

• Secure and lightweight: Uses only node/electron native modules

• Written in TypeScript

• Well documented and easy to use

npm install --save electron-shutdown-command

or

yarn add electron-shutdown-command

const shutdown = require('electron-shutdown-command');

shutdown.shutdown(); // simple system shutdown with default options

or

import * as shutdown from 'electron-shutdown-command';

shutdown.shutdown(); // simple system shutdown with default options

or

/* shutdown after 60 seconds, force all windows to close (Microsoft Windows only),
 * run as sudo (macOS and Linux only), debug command to console
 * (not execute it) and quit app after the command execution
 */
shutdown.shutdown({
  force: true,
  timerseconds: 60,
  sudo: true,
  debug: true,
  quitapp: true
})

or

// Warning: Microsoft Windows only
shutdown.logoff();

shutdown / power-off your machine

Reboot / restarts your machine

Ends current session Windows only

Enters sleep mode macOS only

Hibernate Windows only

Aborts or cancels a pending shutdown (this does not apply to "shutdown now", which does not wait before shutting down) Windows and Linux only

I quickly wrote this library because I need to add a shutdown option to an Electron Windows App. This is a very simple library that justs executes the shutdown command on different OS. Warning: I didn't have enough time to fully test this module on macOS and Linux. If there is enough interest in some specific platform I can try to improve this module (I currently use this module on Windows 10).

Please send pull requests improving the usage and fixing bugs, improving documentation and providing better examples, or providing some tests, because these things are important.

Shutdown command

• Windows: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491003.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

• macOS: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/shutdown.8.html

• Linux: https://www.computerhope.com/unix/ushutdow.htm

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• How to Run GUI Apps as root in Mac OS X

• Licensed under MIT

• Copyright (c) 2017-2020 [Samuel Carreira]