This project will now be discontinued! NodeJS for Windows is now fully supported by the official release. Please use the official release found from this site! Thank you all for your support!

Warning: Uninstall the previous version, before installing a newer version!

Introduction

This is a short introduction on how this package was built, and how it's going to be used.

Documentation

Visit the wiki for a more in depth documentation! (But seriously for the moment I have exams to take, so I'm inviting everyone to help me out and build a better environment for Windows users who'd like to practice NodeJS and use some of their modules! :)

Installation

1. Download and Install the latest release of the package. The environment variable PATH should already be appended by the installer with the installation directory of NodeJS and a new environment variable called NODE_PATH should already be added which should point to the %install_directory%\node_modules.
2. Test the installation if NodeJS works with the Socket.IO module.

Testing

Using the command prompt go to your documents folder. There should be a new directory called NodeJS there. Go to the socket directory example. And try to run it with Node. The ff example indicates a successful install.

Microsoft Windows Version 6.1.7600
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Bangonkali>cd Documents\NodeJS\Examples\socket

C:\Users\Bangonkali\Documents\NodeJS\Examples\socket>node socket.js
   ?[36minfo  -?[39m socket.io started

More Examples

1. Simple Chat System Video: In Less than 5 Minutes! ( NEW VERSION :)
2. Simple Chat System Video: In Less than 5 Minutes! ( OLD VERSION )

How to Build the Installer Yourself

• This package was built using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). You can check the source code in the source section.
• Add this addon to NSIS includes folder in your program files directory.

NodeJS Modules (New modules since 0.6.5.1!)

The following are the modules included in this package:

• Added the NPM module! (New @ 0.6.5.1)
• This NodeJS included in the package has since been upgraded to Version 0.6.0 stable. There might be incompatibilities with the pre-existing modules. You might want to download the older release if your projects no longer work with the latest release.
• For those who would like to force NPM with windows you can read instructions from npmsjs wiki. Note, the experimental procedure discussed here does not work with NodeJS version 0.6 and above.
• connect-1.7.2 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• Tested the csrf middleware http://j.mp/sLla7y
• Tested the basicAuth middleware http://j.mp/uelIM4
• not all tested
• connect-mongodb-1.0.0 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• tested
• express-2.5.0 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• no project management yet.
• but basic calls to express methods work
• not all tested
• express-csrf-0.3.3 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• untested
• mime-1.2.4 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• untested
• mkdirp-0.0.7 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• ntested
• qs-0.3.1 (@ 0.5.10.2)
• untested
• mysql
• hasish
• socket.io
• socket.io-client
• uglify-js
• websocket-client
• xmlhttprequest
• policyfile
• redis

Future

• Everyone is invited to JOIN IN and ADD MORE MODULES to this package. As long as they'll work perfectly with each other. And probably someday, when a real package manager for windows starts arriving then we can leave the modules to it. As for the moment, I think this is better than nothing for Windows users.
• Also there is a very good article from here which details how to run NodeJS as a service. This would be very good. I'll be working on this soon. Probably an install as a service section for the NSIS script. That would be pretty cool. \m/
• I don't know so much about licensing stuff so I hope people will not get angry with what im doing. I'm not taking ownership on any code stored in this project, I just want a simple package for my Co-Windows Users. ^_

Inspiration

This project was inspired by this article. You can visit updates from the developer blog here.