Re: nodejs in windows

[Bert Belder]

On Friday, October 5, 2012 10:09:38 AM UTC+2, harilal pillai wrote:

hello,

Am new to node js . I have installed nodejs in C:\Program Files\nodejs . and installed socket io. I tried to create some sample application in E:\harilal\node. i got error "cannot find socket io" . after searching installed socket.io in the app folder using npm.

Now it's working fine. Is i need to install socket.io for every app separately. Is it possible to install it in node installation directory and use it in apps?

Regards

Harilal

This is a known issue. Try setting the HOME environment variable. On the command line enter
  set HOME=%USERPROFILE%

By the way, installing socket.io for every app is sort of the recommended way of doing things.

- Bert

[BlondAngelNYC]

I am a newbie myself.   I wanted to use ExpressJS for two projects.  This is what I have learned:

If you are running things from the commandline, you can use 'npm install -g <name>' to use the module.

If you are running within a webserver, you need to install it locally with 'npm install <name>'

Once I understood the distinction, then everything makes sense.

[harilal pillai]

thanks for the reply..

@ Bert Thanks for it.. 

@BlondAngelNYC    Actually am also a newbie. Just started to work with nodejs. I didn't understand the idea of running from commandline and from webserver. Could you please tell me more about it?

Regards

harilal

[mgutz]

I don't like installing anything globally since I work on multiple projects. I like each project to be self contained including the utilities it requires. For example, coffee. The workaround is to prepend

`node_modules/.bin` to PATH

This way local scripts are used if they exist. Declare command line utilities under `devDependencies` in package.json.