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If the Node.js process is spawned with an IPC channel (see the [Child Process][] and [Cluster][] documentation), the 'message' event is emitted whenever a message sent by a parent process using [childprocess.send()][] is received by the child process.

The listener callback is invoked with the following arguments:

  • message {Object} a parsed JSON object or primitive value.
  • sendHandle {Handle object} a [net.Socket][] or [net.Server][] object, or undefined.

Note: The message goes through JSON serialization and parsing. The resulting message might not be the same as what is originally sent. See notes in [the JSON.stringify() specification][JSON.stringify spec].