craig-o-curtis / node-projects

Node.js Web Servers, Tests, Deployment

This repo contains several programs including:

• Text server
• Static file server serving static HTML files
• Dictionary app serving and writing to a JSON file
• Countdown installed globally
• Socket chat app in the browser using web sockets
• Socket.io terminal chat app

Run Scripts

• Run a file with npx babel-node <file-path>

npx babel-node ./programs/request.js

• Or with script npm run tx -- <file-path>

npm run tx -- <file-path>
// For example:
npm run tx -- ./server/plain-text.js

Make a package global:

Make Global

1. add at top file:

#!/usr/bin/env node

2. in package.json, add bin:

  "bin": {
    "countdown": "countdown.js"
  },

3. run npm link

4. run countdown

5. remove with npm unlink

ENV Variables

• set with $ export NODE_ENV=development
• check with $ echo $NODE_ENV in terminal
• use with process.env.NODE_ENV