How to run a hello.js file in Node.js on windows?
Here are the exact steps I just took to run the “Hello World” example found at http://nodejs.org/. This is a quick and dirty example. For a permanent installation you’d want to store the executable in a more reasonable place than the root directory and update your PATH to include its location.
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Download the Windows executable here: http://nodejs.org/#download
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Copy the file to C:\
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Create C:\hello.js
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Paste in the following content:
` var http = require(‘http’);
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {‘Content-Type’: ‘text/plain’});
res.end(‘Hello World\n’);
}).listen(1337, “127.0.0.1”);
console.log(‘Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/’);
- Save the file
- Start -> Run... -> cmd
- c:
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C:>node hello.js
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/
That's it. This was done on Windows XP.