mediacenterjs
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Windows installer
What an installer should do and what should be fixed:
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SHOULD NEVER require UAC to install (rights asInvoker is enough)
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should by default install to
C:\Program Files\MediacenterJS
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Include the
node.exe
file. Or download during the installation process to program folder LOCALLY into the BIN folder ! and probably the npm tool. And the dependencies. -
package.json
should contain some line like{ "engines" : { "node" : ">=8.5.0" } }
a.
fs-extra
: use the newconst fs = require('fs').promises
way to not need fs-extra and work with node>10.b. sqlite3 has been build against a specific version of node. gyp will mess this up. It does usually work, if for sqlite3, the newest version is used, because pre-gyp kicks in and downloads the precompiled binary.
c. socket.io needs to be updated as well
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additionally: add electron to be able to run in background, only having a tray icon or alike (no need to package into electron, could also be downloaded during install).
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should run
compact /C /S:node_modules *.*
to NTFS-Compact that directory to keep installed size small - or:compact /C /S node_modules\*.*
to include node_modules for all future modules. -
run
del /F/S/Q node_modules & npm install
(rd /S/Q node_modules
) at the end - if dependencies were not packed into the installer for the specific node version.- needs current environment path to be prepended with the
bin\node...
path to work (best done in the mediacenter.exe)
- needs current environment path to be prepended with the
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JADE became PUG ...
I tried that way, but to no avail I can't install on windows 7