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cbailiss
cbailiss

Reputation: 1344

Invoking node.js package directly from the windows command line

On windows, at the "Node.js command prompt" (as opened from the Start Menu), I can run the following:

highcharts-export-server -infile "C:\Users\bailis02\Desktop\R Export\hc.json" 
--type svg -outfile "C:\Users\bailis02\Desktop\R Export\hc.svg"

highcharts-export-server was installed via npm with the -g option as outlined at: https://github.com/highcharts/node-export-server/blob/master/README.md

What is the best way of running the same, but directly from the standard windows command line? I have found the following work from the windows command line:

"C:\Users\bailis02\AppData\Roaming\npm\highcharts-export-server.cmd" 
-infile "hc.json" --type svg -outfile "hc.svg"

"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Users\bailis02\AppData\Roaming\npm\
node_modules\highcharts-export-server\bin\cli.js" 
-infile "hc.json" --type svg -outfile "hc.svg"

Is there a smarter way of doing this, e.g. where I can just specify "highcharts-export-server" without having to specify a path into AppData\Roaming?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 168

Answers (1)

Alex McMillan
Alex McMillan

Reputation: 17942

If you add C:\Program Files\nodejs to your PATH environment variable, you could shorten that to 

node "C:\Users\bailis02\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\highcharts-export-server\bin\cli.js" -infile "hc.json" --type svg -outfile "hc.svg"

If you use special folder lookups:

node "%APPDATA%\npm\node_modules\highcharts-export-server\bin\cli.js" -infile "hc.json" --type svg -outfile "hc.svg"

If you do this often it could justify a script, something like this (note this is thrown together and untested):

import exporter from 'highcharts-export-server';

exporter.initPool();
exporter.export({
    infile: process.env.argv[2],
    type: process.env.argv[3],
    outfile: process.env.argv[4]
});

then you could use it like so:

node export.js hc.json svg hc.svg

And you can always tweak the arguments etc to suit your use-case. The highcharts-export-server documentation lists all the goodies you can use.

Upvotes: 1

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