Developing Nodejs App Using Eclipse

Until today I was doing npm init to initialize my nodejs project and install dependencies. But I have figured out way to write nodejs code using my favorite tool eclipse.

There is a plugin called Nodeclipse which will help you to do that stuff. I will go through step by step to run first nodejs project using elipse.

Installing Nodeclipse to your existing eclipse tool

Open your eclipse marketplace. 

HELP >> Eclipse Marketplace

Click on "Install" to install your plugin.

Restart your eclipse

Deploying Express Nodejs Application

Once you restart you eclipse, create a new nodejs project or new nodejs Expressjs Project. In my case, I have created Nodejs Expressjs Project.

Now, right click on the app.js view, select run as Nodejs Application. Your nodejs app is up and running with your favorite tool eclipse.

Serving first HTML with node.js

Last week I have written hello world with node js i.e how to write first javascript file on the server side and how to execute it with node.js

In this tutorial, we will see how to start our own server and throwing first html with it. This is achived in two steps

Hello World with node.js

I have been hearing a lot from programmers about node.js. A server side javascript framework which can accomplish all the server side tasks. Lets see how to use node.js