Download node.exe
http://nodejs.org/#download
At the time of writing, the version was v0.5.4 (unstable)
Don’t worry about it being unstable, you wouldn’t dream of running it on Windows in production, would you ![]()
Put it somewhere sensible
For me, I have node.exe on the root of C:\
Some people have a subfolder, such as “tools” where they’ve got Ruby installed (incidently, I also have this installed on the root of C:\)
Sort path out
In order for us to be all “*nix like” and run stuff like “node myApp.js” from the command prompt, then we need to add the location of our node.exe file to the path.
In my case, I added C:\Node.exe to path