Thanks for the reply, I'll check out Hook as well.

I'm fairly new to working with Node, so any kind of context for use-cases around some of these libraries is always a help

i assume messenger works the same way, but the nature of hook is the processes are completely decoupled. essentially, you are just creating an event emitter that works cross-process. one benefit of this decoupling is it enables you to spin up and take down these processes without affecting the rest of the program.