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--- nodejs_on_metaarray [2022/01/21 01:25] – fix image size peteyboy
+++ nodejs_on_metaarray [2024/09/06 06:02] (current) – ld’ hc9
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 ====== Setting up a simple Node.js Server  ======
+You can try Node.js by using your [[meta_port_allocation |Port Allocation]] on the [[metaarray |The MetaArray]] to run your own Node.js server. What follows is a bare-bones ‘Hello, World’ example tailored for the metaarray:
-You can try Node.js by using your [[meta_port_allocation|Port Allocation]] on the [[metaarray|The MetaArray]] to run your own Node.js server. What follows is a bare-bones 'Hello, World' exmaple tailored for the metaarray:
+  - go to a project folder in your user folder, say ''~/projects/nodejstest''
-  - go to a project folder in your user folder, say <tt>~/projects/nodejstest</tt>
   - use your favorite editor to open a new file called ''app.js''
     *paste the following code into the file: <code>const http = require('http');
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         });</code>
   - run the server with ''node app.js''
-  - check it out with a browser pointed to your metaarray website but at your UID port, for example ''http://me.sdf.org:30099''
+  - OMG that was so easy, right? Check it out with a browser pointed to your metaarray website but at your UID port, for example ''http://me.sdf.org:30099''
-    * it should look like {{:screen_shot_hello_node.png?400|browser showing 'Hello World, this is node' }}
+    * it should look like the image to the right {{  :screen_shot_hello_node.png?400|browser showing 'Hello World, this is node'  }}
   - quit the server with ''ctl-c''
+  - knock yourself out doing more cool stuff with javascript on the server!