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20131229 On Windows
Thanks to http://blog.gvm-it.eu/post/20404719601/getting-started-with-node-js-on-windows
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Download from http://nodejs.org/download/ and install
- Ensure add to path is left selected
Run cmd and at prompt >node to tests whether enters command line
Yay, CTRL-C twice to exit
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Create a folder to hold your node assets, ie d:\_Node\
In CMD move to this folder first before entering the Node command line
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- to run a JS file from the current CMD folder:
- node myjsfile.js
Example:
Create file helloworld.js
// our very first node program
console.log("Hello world!");
run it at cmd line when in d:\_node\
- node helloworld.js
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A simple webserver
create a new simpleserver.js file
// include http module var http = require('http'); // create server http.createServer(function (req, res) { // respond to any incoming http requests res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('I am alive!\n'); }).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1'); // log server started at localhost:1337 console.log('Server running at 127.0.0.1:1337');
run it:
- node simpleserver.js
access it at http://localhost:1337/
Stop it using CTRL-C
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NPM:
At node command line in target folder ie d:\_node:
- npm install xml2js
Nice!
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