Description Ilya Buziuk 2015-12-15 12:27:54 EST

For now npm / bower is launched via node. Basically, this was done due to the fact that on Mac Os launched from desktop node PATH var not available:
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env: node: No such file or directory
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In order to handle it, it was suggested to launch npm / bower tools via node and have a preference for each tool. However, on thym project more elegant solution was found - execute the given command and returns a handle to the process. 
More details can be found here:
- https://github.com/gorkem/thym/blob/use_cli/plugins/org.eclipse.thym.core/src/org/eclipse/thym/core/internal/cordova/CordovaCLI.java#
- https://github.com/gorkem/thym/blob/use_cli/plugins/org.eclipse.thym.core/src/org/eclipse/thym/core/internal/util/ExternalProcessUtility.java

Basically, this approach kills two birds with one stone:
1. No mac os Path issue
2. No need to have preferences for node / npm / bower

Also, it will be quite easy to provide cheatsheets for this tools which will include sets of commands

The plan is:
- reimplement the launch process that will be generic for both jsdt and thym (gulp / grunt tools in future)
- remove irrelevant code with preferences, detectors etc

All external tool functionality will be embedded in a plugin which provides ability to make CLI calls across all platforms