Where to place JS files for NodeJS to see them

Question

I've just installed NodeJS on my Mac, and i got it working in the terminal, using inline scripting like "console.log('Hello world'); works fine.

But where do i place JS files for NodeJS to find them? Can i specify the root folder NodeJS to look for file in?

I followed this guide: http://nodeguide.com/beginner.html#learning-javascript but i cannot get any of the samlpe to work where i reference a script file.

Answer 1

You put them in whatever folder you want. It is common practice to put each application in a different folder.

Then you run node.js like this:

node /path/to/file.js 

Or like this:

cd /path/to/ node file.js 

Where file.js might look something like this:

console.log('hello world');