From 7988699601aec92f4f29474ef9ce7badc8b902ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Budzenski <jbudz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:51:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for passing in node options via environment
 variable (#56)

* Add support for passing in node options via environment variable

* Split node options

* semicolon
---
 packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/package.json                | 1 +
 packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/tasks/start/start_action.js | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/package.json b/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/package.json
index 08d136c90b95a60..cb1f97e256f7f81 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/package.json
+++ b/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/package.json
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     "lint": "eslint bin/ help/ tasks/"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "argv-split": "^2.0.1",
     "commander": "^2.9.0",
     "del": "^2.2.2",
     "gulp-rename": "1.2.2",
diff --git a/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/tasks/start/start_action.js b/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/tasks/start/start_action.js
index 2c175ab3d08e62d..89cf22a0b8a3901 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/tasks/start/start_action.js
+++ b/packages/kbn-plugin-helpers/tasks/start/start_action.js
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 const execFileSync = require('child_process').execFileSync;
 const  { join } = require('path');
+const split = require('argv-split');
 
 module.exports = function (plugin, run, options) {
   options = options || {};
 
   const cmd = 'node';
   const script = join('scripts', 'kibana.js');
-  let args = [script, '--dev', '--plugin-path', plugin.root];
+  const nodeOptions = split(process.env.NODE_OPTIONS || '');
+
+  let args = nodeOptions.concat([script, '--dev', '--plugin-path', plugin.root]);
 
   if (Array.isArray(plugin.includePlugins)) {
     plugin.includePlugins.forEach((path) => {