How to install node js as windows service

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I have downloaded node js executable  How can I run that executable as windows service  I cannot use standard node js installer  since I need to run multiple version of node js concurrently

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I m not addressing the question directly  but providing an alternative that might also meet your requirement in a more node js fashion way   Functionally the requirements are    Have the logic  app  running in the background Be able to start stop the logic Automatically start the logic when system boots up   These requirements can be satisfied by using a process manager  PM  and making the process manager start on system startup  Two good PMs that are Windows-friendly are    PM2 forever   To make the PM start automatically  the most simple way is to create a scheduled task with a  At Startup  trigger

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WinSer is a node js friendly wrapper around the popular NSSM  Non-Sucking Service Manager

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I found the thing so useful that I built an even easier to use wrapper around it  npm  github    Installing it   npm install -g qckwinsvc   Installing your service      qckwinsvc   prompt  Service name   name for your service  prompt  Service description   description for it  prompt  Node script path   path of your node script  Service installed   Uninstalling your service      qckwinsvc --uninstall   prompt  Service name   name of your service  prompt  Node script path   path of your node script  Service stopped Service uninstalled

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The process manager   task scheduler approach  I posted a year ago works well with some one-off service installations  But recently I started to design system in a micro-service fashion  with many small services talking to each other via IPC  So manually configuring each service has become unbearable    Towards the goal of installing services without manual configuration  I created serman  a command line tool  install with npm i -g serman  to install an executable as a service  All you need to write  and only write once  is a simple service configuration file along with your executable  Run   serman install  lt path to config file gt    will install the service  stdout and stderr are all logged  For more info  take a look at the project website   A working configuration file is very simple  as demonstrated below  But it also has many useful features such as  lt env gt  and  lt persistent env gt  below    lt service gt     lt id gt hello lt  id gt     lt name gt hello lt  name gt     lt description gt This service runs the hello application lt  description gt      lt executable gt node exe lt  executable gt      lt  --           dir   will be expanded to the containing directory of your         config file  which is normally where your executable locates     -- gt     lt arguments gt    dir   hello js  lt  arguments gt      lt logmode gt rotate lt  logmode gt      lt  -- OPTIONAL FEATURE         NODE ENV production will be an environment variable         available to your application  but not visible outside         of your application    -- gt     lt env name  NODE ENV  value  production   gt      lt  -- OPTIONAL FEATURE         FOO SERVICE PORT 8989 will be persisted as an environment        variable machine-wide     -- gt     lt persistent env name  FOO SERVICE PORT  value  8989    gt   lt  service gt

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From this blog     Next up  I wanted to host node as a service  just like IIS  This way   it   d start up with my machine  run in the background  restart   automatically if it crashes and so forth       This is where nssm  the non-sucking service manager  enters the   picture  This tool lets you host a normal  exe as a Windows service       Here are the commands I used to setup an instance of the your node   application as a service  open your cmd like administrator and type   following commands   nssm exe install service name c  your nodejs directory node exe c  your application directory server js net start service name

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https   nssm cc  service helper good for create windows service by batch file i use from nssm  amp  good working for any app  amp  any file

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Late to the party  but node-windows will do the trick too     It also has system logging built in     There is an API to create scripts from code  i e   var Service   require  node-windows   Service      Create a new service object var svc   new Service     name  Hello World     description   The nodejs org example web server      script   C   path  to  helloworld js          Listen for the  install  event  which indicates the    process is available as a service  svc on  install  function      svc start         svc install      FD  I m the author of this module

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