What is the different between using StrongLoop's “slc run” and “node app.js”

Question

I\'m working through the StrongLoop\'s getting started instructions and created my sample app. Whilst the instructions tell me to use:

slc run .

Answer 1

Based on the latest release at the moment (v2.1.1), the main immediate benefit of running slc run instead of node app.js is you get a REPL at the same time (lib/run-reple.js#L150L24). Looks like all you have to do is have main set properly in package.json, since it uses Module._load().

If you run slc run app.js you get no benefit as far as I can tell: lib/commands/run.js#30.

Yay open source! https://github.com/strongloop/strong-cli