How to host node as a service, just like IIS in Windows?

Installing node as a service will help us as below.

• Run in the background
• Restart automatically if it crashes

Steps:

1. Install NSSM (non-sucking service manager). This tool lets you host a normal.exe as a Windows service.
2. Go to command prompt.
3. Execute nssm.exe install node-service c:\nodejs-path\node.exe c:\code\sample\server.js
4. Execute net start  node-service

For more information see here.

How to install NodeJS plugin into Sublime Text editor in Windows?

• Invoke the command prompt as administrator.
• Make sure git is already installed.
• Execute the below command.

git clone git://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs.git "%APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2\Packages\Nodejs"

• After successfully installed, restart Sublime text editor.
• To invoke list of functions use Ctrl + Space.

For more information see here.

How to install/uninstall node modules in windows 7?

To install node module

1. Start command prompt as administrator. For help see this link.
2. Go to the folder where nodejs installed. Example: CD "C:\Program Files\nodejs\"
3. Again go to the folder of node_modules under npm. Example: CD "node_modules\npm\node_modules"
4. Execute command "npm install http-proxy"

To uninstall node module

1. Follow Step 1 to 3 of above.
2. Execute command "npm uninstall http-proxy"

Third Party Modules of Node.js

• Module Installer: npm
• HTTP Middleware: Connect
• Web Framework: Express
• Web Sockets: Socket.IO
• HTML Parsing: HTML5
• mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour
• RabbitMQ, AMQP
• mysql
• Serialization: msgpack
• Scraping: Apricot
• Debugger: ndb is a CLI debugger inspector is a web based tool.
• pcap binding
• ncurses
• Testing/TDD/BDD: vows, expresso, mjsunit.runner

Good Websites to refer about Node.js

http://book.mixu.net/index.html
http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449398583/
http://nodebeginner.org/
http://nodeguide.com/