How do I communicate with a native executable from a nodejs server?

Question

I am evaluating what to use for a simple web service. I have a c++ program that takes some queries and generates html pages.

How do I call this executable from a server I am writing in javascript?

If there is a better tool for the task, suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

If you want to launch the C++ program as a separate process, take a look at ChildProcess with special attention on spawn() , and exec() .

If you want to treat it as a dynamically linked shared object, look at Addons .