如何在实时服务器上上传Node.js项目或安装Node.js和NPM模块

Question

I've made a real time chat application with node and socket io and it is running well in my local machine. But its time to run it on my live windows server. I can't understand to how set it up there. Do I need to upload the files to the server or I've to install node js and npm modules in the server and then upload the files. And how I can do these? How I'll run the command prompt as we do in local machine like node chat.js ? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use a deployment client like Capistrano or you can just upload your source files then run npm install (assuming your have node installed) followed by your commands to bring up the server. I'd suggest using a framework like meteor or sails to make deployment easier. Or using a cloud solution like heroku .

Answer 2

You can use Jenkins for deploying your app to server. Running bash commands and setting builds are much more easier.

Answer 3

Keep it simple:

1. Download and install NodeJS, NPM ( here )
2. You need to establish a simple way to move your files to the remote server. Since you can run your code and do the development at your local machine, I recommend you to use github for this purpose. Set up a repository and clone it at your remote server. Then, you can always push and pull your changes using git.
3. You need to establish a simple way to run your code at the remote server. Since you use Windows, I recommend you to create a .bat file that does all the preparations and runs your code. In the simplest case, it would contain node path\\to\\project\\chat.js . Then, run this file using a console. If you're going to use github, you probably should include this .bat file to your repository.

Good luck!