Huh, I used a similar approach several years ago running a Minecraft server for some friends on an old laptop as a child process of a nodejs monitor that had co

Huh, I used a similar approach several years ago running a Minecraft server for some friends on an old laptop as a child process of a nodejs monitor that had commands for changing time, getting certain items for free, etc. Eventually just migrated to craftbukkit because of demand for specific plugins. It turned out that the monitor process worked a lot better.