Electron Shutdown Command

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)

ATTENTION macOS and Linux Users:

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

Key Features

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

• Written in TypeScript

• Well documented and easy to use

Installation

npm install --save electron-shutdown-command

or

yarn add electron-shutdown-command

Usage

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();

Methods

shutdown([options])

shutdown / power-off your machine

reboot([options])

Reboot / restarts your machine

logoff([options])

Ends current session Windows only

sleep([options])

Enters sleep mode macOS only

hibernate([options])

Hibernate Windows only

abort([options])

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

Options

Property	Type	Default	Description
force	boolean	false	Forces running applications to close Windows only
sudo	boolean	false	Run command as sudo macOS and Linux
debug	boolean	false	Shows shutdown command on console for debugging purposes NOTE: It does not run it
quitapp	boolean	false	Quits your app after the shutdown command
timerseconds	number	0	Sets the timer (value in seconds). NOTES: in macOS the minimum is 1 minute. The logoff, sleep and hibernate option cannot be scheduled, they are executed immediately

Motivation and history

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).

Contribution

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.

Learn More

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

• Create Shortcuts on the Desktop to Run Programs as Root in Ubuntu 11.10

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

License

• Licensed under MIT

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