this version will run with npm start, but when attempting to run the built version behind nginx, it appears to have issues
Shellwords
Shellwords provides functions to manipulate strings according to the word parsing rules of the UNIX Bourne shell. It is based on the Ruby module of the same name.
Installation
Add "shellwords" to your package.json file and run npm install.
Example
var shellwords = require("shellwords");
shellwords.split("foo 'bar baz'");
// ["foo", "bar baz"]
shellwords.escape("What's up, yo?");
// 'What\\\'s\\ up,\\ yo\\?'