This cookbook will deploy node and npm (node package manager) to your system. It also defines providers to install/uninstall node module and start/stop/restart node servers.

• homepage : github.com/digitalbutter/cookbook-node

• a working git framework (for example provided by Opscode git cookbook)

Tested on ubuntu. Should work on other system with upstart.

• node/version : indicates which version to install. Default is the latest (‘HEAD’). Since node evolves very quickly and is not always that stable, you might want to set it to a stable version (for example ‘v0.4.3’)

Include the node recipe to download, compile and install node along with npm.

node_server provider to start/stop server. The following example will start a provided script with node. Logs can be found in /var/log/node-my_node_server.log.

node_server "my_node_server" do
    script "/path/to/your/node/script.js" # mandatory
    user "my_user" # default : root
    dependency ["required","node","modules"] # default []. Will be installed with npm before starting the server
    args "arguments for your script" # default ""
    action :start # Will start a node server. In [stop,start,restart]
end

node_npm provider to manage nodejs modules. The following example will install the connect module for node.

node_npm "connect" do
    action :install
end

Author

• Emmanuel Prochasson (<[email protected]>)

• Ed Bosher (<[email protected]>)

Contributor:

• Jon Wood (<[email protected]>)

Copyright

2011, Tikibooth Limited

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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