How to run a hello.js file in Node.js on windows?

Question

I am trying to run a hello world program written in javascript in a separate file named hello.js

Currently running windows version of node.js.

The code runs perfectly in console window but how do I reference the path in windows environment.

C:\abc\zyx\hello.js 

in Unix I guess it is showing $ node hello.js

I'm absolutely new to Node.js Please correct me if I am doing something wrong.

I tried

> node C:\abc\zyx\hello.js ----didn't work

> C:\abc\zyx\hello.js --didn't work

UPDATE1:

Added node.exe to the folder where hello.js file is sitting.
Added path point to the folder c:\abc\zyx\ and I get an error that says

ReferenceError: hello is not defined

see contents of hello.js

setTimeout(function() { console.log('World!'); }, 2000); console.log('Hello'); 

UPDATE 2:

So far I have tried all these version and none of them seems to work. May be I am doing something completely wrong.

>node hello.js >$ node hello.js >node.exe hello.js >node /hello.js >node \hello.js > \node \hello.js > /node /hello.js > C:\abc\xyz\node.exe C:\abc\xyz\hello.js > C:\abc\xyz\node.exe C:/abc/xyz/hello.js > hello.js > /hello.js > \hello.js >node hello 

Refer to my file structure

. ├── hello.js ├── node.exe └── paths.txt 

RESOLVED: Instead of running node.exe, try running in command prompt with the following option and it worked.

c:\>node c:\abc\hello.js Hello World! (after 2 secs) 

Answer 1

Here are the exact steps I just took to run the "Hello World" example found at http://nodejs.org/. This is a quick and dirty example. For a permanent installation you'd want to store the executable in a more reasonable place than the root directory and update your PATH to include its location.

1. Download the Windows executable here: http://nodejs.org/#download
2. Copy the file to C:\
3. Create C:\hello.js
4. Paste in the following content:

    var http = require('http');     http.createServer(function (req, res) {       res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});       res.end('Hello World\n');     }).listen(1337, "127.0.0.1");     console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/'); 

1. Save the file
2. Start -> Run... -> cmd
3. c:

4. C:>node hello.js

   Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/ 

That's it. This was done on Windows XP.