fix: relaunch button could silently quit without reopening - #13
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Verified directly: PR #11's fix (spawn 'open' + immediately call app.exit()) could silently drop the relaunch entirely - the app quit and never came back, no error, nothing. Reproduced in isolation that the same spawn+exit pattern works fine as a plain Node script, so this is specific to app.exit(): it tears the process down harder and faster than a normal quit, and was winning the race against `open` finishing its handoff to launchd. Give the spawned process a brief moment to actually launch before tearing this one down. Also use the absolute /usr/bin/open path instead of relying on PATH resolution, removing one more variable.
This was referenced Jul 24, 2026
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