In express.js (since version 3) you should use that syntax: var fs = require(‘fs’); var http = require(‘http’); var https = require(‘https’); var privateKey = fs.readFileSync(‘sslcert/server.key’, ‘utf8’); var certificate = fs.readFileSync(‘sslcert/server.crt’, ‘utf8’); var credentials = {key: privateKey, cert: certificate}; var express = require(‘express’); var app = express(); // your express configuration here var httpServer = … Read more
Quick and Dirty If you just have one file using require, or you’re doing this for demo purposes you can define require at the top of your TypeScript file. declare var require: any TypeScript 2.x If you are using TypeScript 2.x you no longer need to have Typings or Definitely Typed installed. Simply install the … Read more
The second form (creating an HTTP server yourself, instead of having Express create one for you) is useful if you want to reuse the HTTP server, for example to run socket.io within the same HTTP server instance: var express = require(‘express’); var app = express(); var server = require(‘http’).createServer(app); var io = require(‘socket.io’).listen(server); … server.listen(1234); … Read more
*NIX (Linux, OS X, …) Use n, an extremely simple Node version manager that can be installed via npm. Say you want Node.js v0.10.x to build Atom. npm install -g n # Install n globally n 0.10.33 # Install and use v0.10.33 Usage: n # Output versions installed n latest # Install or activate the … Read more
Here are two options now – 1. Try to uninstall Node.js version 17+ and reinstall Node.js version 16+ You can re install the current LTS Node.js version from their official site. Or more specific downloads from here; You can use NVM (Node Version Manager) Linux and Mac users can use this nvm package – https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm … Read more
Copying my own answer from How do I run a Node.js application as its own process? 2015 answer: nearly every Linux distro comes with systemd, which means forever, monit, PM2, etc are no longer necessary – your OS already handles these tasks. Make a myapp.service file (replacing ‘myapp’ with your app’s name, obviously): [Unit] Description=My … Read more
The difference between npm install and npm update handling of package versions specified in package.json: { “name”: “my-project”, “version”: “1.0”, // install update “dependencies”: { // —————— “already-installed-versionless-module”: “*”, // ignores “1.0” -> “1.1” “already-installed-semver-module”: “^1.4.3” // ignores “1.4.3” -> “1.5.2” “already-installed-versioned-module”: “3.4.1” // ignores ignores “not-yet-installed-versionless-module”: “*”, // installs installs “not-yet-installed-semver-module”: “^4.2.1” // installs … Read more
Heroku dynamically assigns your app a port, so you can’t set the port to a fixed number. Heroku adds the port to the env, so you can pull it from there. Switch your listen to this: .listen(process.env.PORT || 5000) That way it’ll still listen to port 5000 when you test locally, but it will also … Read more
Change your file permissions… Like this First check who owns the directory ls -la /usr/local/lib/node_modules it is denying access because the node_module folder is owned by root drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jun 24 23:24 node_modules so this needs to be changed by changing root to your user but first run command below to check … Read more
The protocol is available as req.protocol. docs here Before express 3.0, the protocol you can assume to be http unless you see that req.get(‘X-Forwarded-Protocol’) is set and has the value https, in which case you know that’s your protocol The host comes from req.get(‘host’) as Gopal has indicated Hopefully you don’t need a non-standard port … Read more