Comment by Andre Lewis on "I have searched just about the entire internet for this so I am coming to you with a tough one. How do you spawn a node shell with a custom module pre loaded into it."

I haven't tried this but I suspect this will work.

Add replify to your app, after your other imports
Run the application
Connect to the REPL socket to interact with your app.

I believe this was originally created so you could interact with Node while a web server was running, so you could do live inspection of the contents.

You would need a utility to read/write to the socket, such as socat or nc

You could also add this to a shell script:

#! /bin/sh
node app.js &
nc -U /tmp/repl/realtime-101.sock

For more info: https://github.com/dshaw/replify

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