How to create a web application that uses buttons to execute shell scripts

Question

I have several shell scripts and I would like to execute them by clicking on a button in the client side. How can I manage to do this?

Answer 1

You've tagged this node.js and angular so:

1. Create an HTTP server with Node. You can use Express for this.
2. Create a post route that will run the shell script
3. Use a child process to run that shell script
4. Attach an event handler to your button
5. Have the event handler make an HTTP POST request to your server