Dragonsreach

Most of the time when you are looking for a way to run Node.js as a production server on Windows you will just run into IISNode , now IISNode is a great thing ,but I'm a fan of choice and most importantly , not a fan of XML web config files. I wanted to run my node server on what ever port I wished,or maybe even a different server and just have IIS reroute the traffic from a particular URL to the node process(so a proxy), this allows you to still manage your own load balancing and possibly scale up from that point without having to bother with IIS again. So first things first you will want to download and install the URL Rewrite and ARR modules for IIS ARR (Application Request Routing) URL Rewrite Once thats done lets crack open IIS and open up Application Request Routing, then navigate to Server Proxy Settings and Check Enable Proxy and Apply. Now lets create an an application on our Default Website that will link our url to the node process, h...

Reverse proxy Running node alongside Apache takes little effort, all it requires is a reverse proxy , which is way less of an effort to set up in Apache than it is in IIS  and a way to run your node process as a service.  To set up a reverse proxy in apache simply add the code in the following gist to the end of your httpd.conf ( located at /etc/apache2 on OSX ) just before the line:  Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf . Loading Gist .... This will re-route any traffic from yourserver/node to yourserver:8080 . Of corse line 14 ( ProxyPass /node http://localhost:8080 ) can be edited according to your liking , but this is just an example. Thats it when it comes to the reverse proxy , all you have to do is restart apache and all requests to yourserver/node will now go to the node process running at yourserver:8080 . Forever Now that we have Apache rerouting the traffic to the right spot , we should set up the node server as a daemon...

Prerequisites You will need node.js and npm installed , and should have at least some knowledge when it comes to node, if you do not , I suggest you try some example code in node before diving into controlling hardware with it.  You must have the Arduino IDE installed on your machine You must know how to get an LED working on pin 13 of an Arduino Set up the Arduino Wire up an LED to the Arduino on pin 13 and plug it into your development machine. Now we need to get it ready to talk to johnny-five. To do this simply follow the instructions under johnny-five's readme Set up the project  Create a folder on your development machine for the project , in this folder create the server.js and index.html files. Copy the code from the files in this gist  to the respective files. Loading .... We aren't done yet , we need johnny-five and the narf for this to work. In your project directory run the following command: npm install narf johnny-five If that su...